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MEDJCAL CENTER ■
NOT CIRCULATE
CRUMBS OF COMFORT.
HOW TO CURE THE SICK.
J. WESLEY CUTLER, B. A., M. D.,
Gynaecologist, Surgeon for Mil. & St. Paul R. R., Etc., Etc.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
What will a man give in exchange for health?— Dollars.
FIRST EDITION
MILWAUKEE:
A, WETZEL & BRO., Printers.
1899.
MEDICAL CENTER
COPYRIGHTED 1898,
BY
J. WESLEY CUTLER, B. A., M. D.
All Rights Reserved.
THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY
DEDICATED
TO ALL THOSE WHOSE JUDGMENT IS BETTER
THAN THEIR CREED.
Crumbs of Comfort.
PREFACE.
"Whoso resolves to have health, has God on his sid*.
He that wants health, wants everything.
The treasurer of the mind is health.
Health brings pleasure, sickness pain.
Health is mistress of success.
A healthy body is the medicine of life."
The one purpose of this book is to cure the sick by the sim-
plest and quickest route possible. Only the best and most spe-
cific treatment is persented. It will be noticed that the "minute
dose frequently repeated" is used much more often than any
other. If there is any science in prescribing drugs for the cure
of the sick, it lies in the above statement quite as much as in
the judgment exercised in the selection of the drug to be em-
ployed. The "how" to administer is quite as important as the
"what" to administer. By reference to my opening remarks in
Part II. of this book, you will see my reasons for the minute
dose, as also the method of preparing it.
Over three hundred of the common diseases affecting man-
kind are treated in this volume, and also the general indications
are given for the use of many of the drugs employed. I have
designed to make this book one of quick and ready reference for
the doctor and the patient alike. I have filled it with "Succo-
tash" for the physician, and "Crumbs of Comfort" for the sick.
To assist in bringing about the faithful and careful perusal
and use of this book, I have decided to offer a prize of $200.00 to
those who will favor me with criticisms of it. These criticisms
may be favorable or adverse, poetical, ironical, humorous or
silly, or they may be in the form of a caricature or cartoon.
This offer stands good for eighteen months from date hereof,
namely : To the person sending the best criticism, $50.00 cash.
To the two next best, $25.00 each. To the two next best, $15.00
each. To the two next best, $10.00 each. To the five next best,
$5.00 each, and for the poorest criticism, $25.00. Photograph
of the critic must accompany the criticism and become the prop-
erty of the Author, as also the criticism itself.
J. W. CUTLER, B. A, M. D.
Milwaukee, Wis.
January 20, 1S99.
INTRODUCTION
There can be no objection to introduce this volume with a
text. "He that careth not for his own household, is worse than
an infidel." — Bible. There is a gospel of health just as truly as
there is a gospel of salvation, and he who ignores the former
should forfeit the latter. The gospel of hygiene and sanitation
in a sick room, and surrounding a sick person, is much more
important in its relation to recovery than the administrations
offered by the most skilled physician. When sickness comes to
a household, the first consideration which should engage the
attention of the family and the physician alike should be proper
surroundings and careful nursing for the sick one. In view of
these facts I will introduce this volume by some considerations
which I deem important for the care of the sick.
Inasmuch as that it is the common lot of mankind to suffer
arn"iction ; it is quite important when a home is being established
to have in mind a properly appointed and properly located room,
to be known as the "sick room." This room should be so located
and so arranged that when sickness comes it can be quickly
converted into a hospital. The southwest corner of the house is
the best location for such a room. This affords sunlight, which
is one of nature's balms of Gilead. It should be located on one
of the upper floors of the house, where it is free from noise, and
where the best ventilation can be afforded. As soon, then, as
sickness comes the victim should be removed to this room,
where pure air and sunlight and the best possible hygienic meas-
ures can be offered him. This room should be free from all arti-
cles of furniture and drapery and ornamentation, except such as
are absolutely essential for the comfort of the patient. A plain
bed and mattress with proper clothing, a small table, wash-stand,
two chairs, one a rocking chair, a couch and a screen are about
all that are necessary as equipage for such a room. A small rug
may be placed upon the naked floor to give the room a homelike
appearance. The walls and ceiling should be free from paper
and pictures. It is best to have the walls and ceiling painted so
that they may be washed and thus kept clean. The windows
should be so arranged that they may be darkened when neces-
sity requires the room to be made a dark one. The floor of a
sick room ought by all means to be of polished hardwood. The
temperature of the sick room should be kept, night and day, at
about 69 F. If sickness comes in summer the temperature can
be lowered by dipping a sheet in cold water and suspending it
in the room where a draught of air can come in contact with it.
The next thought that should engage the attention of an
afflicted family is the selection of professional help. Families
are not under obligation to employ a certain physician because
of any peculiar social relationships, or neighborhood ties, or
family consanguinity, nor because he is a handsome man and
therefore full of brains, but because of sound judgment and
thorough tuition and preparation for the "work of life" in which
he is engaged.
The next care should be the selection of the nurse. She or
he may in some cases be selected in the family, and should have
no other care nor service ; but should become the body servant
and guardian angel of the sick one. By all means avoid that
fidgity, fussy, nervous, or morose "Betsy Bobbits," which some-
times infests a neighborhood under the pretention of being a
nurse. A calm and thoughtful temperament that will not exceed
the exact limits of necessity toward the patient, and who has not
an ungovernable desire to do works of supererogation, is the
person to be selected as a nurse. This individual is to carefully
and scrupulously carry into effect the directions and advice of
the physician. If a preference should be stated for a good nurse,
or a good doctor, it would be the former.
The patient should receive only such attention as will make
him the most comfortable — administering food and medicines,
baths, and massage — under the guidance of the physician — re-
cording faithfully all symptoms of importance as well as the
temperature and pulse of the patient. The normal temperature
is 98.6 and the normal pulse about 70 per minute, and the nor-
mal respiration 18 per minute. The selection of food depends
entirely upon the disease with which the patient is contending,
and should be selected upon the combined experience of the
physician and nurse. In every sick-room there should be a con-
spicuous and glorious absence of those visiting angels whose
stock-in-trade, usually, is to rehearse in the hearing of the sick
the awful disasters that have befallen many of their acquaint-
ances who were similarly afflicted. Clergymen should always
be admitted to the sacred and solemn abodes of the afflicted, but
not those religious worms who bore into and agitate the souls
of the afflicted with incessant exhortations built upon the awful-
ness oi death. Conversations and themes that tend to inspire
and stimulate the soul, have a similar effect in arousing to life
and health the body of the sick.
PART I.
DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT.
ANAESTHESIA.
GENERAL ANAESTHETICS.
It is very important that a patient to be operated upon has a
restful night before the operation. This is imperative. Codeine
one grain for an adult and Passirlora 1J teaspoonfuls will accom-
plish this much better than anything else. Children should take
half the quantity. Do not give Opium nor Morphine.
Chloroform is the best and safest anaesthetic for general use.
Use an Esmarch Inhaler, admitting plenty of air and going
slowly at the beginning. The respirations, the action' of
the heart, and response of the eye to light, are the three things
to be observed constantly during the administration of every
anaesthetic. If the eye fails to respond to the effect of light,
great danger is present. Or if snoring occurs danger is present.
Do not resist the patient in the delirium of the first stage, es-
pecially persons accustomed to alcoholic drinks. Do not pro-
duce respirations by compression at the line of the diaphragm.
Prolonged or interrupted, or suspended breathing is best cor-
rected by forced elevation of the chin, thus affecting the pneu-
mogastric nerve and bringing the respiratory organs to their
proper work. Slow anaesthesia may be improved by occasion-
ally pinching the thigh. Chloroform is the proper anaesthetic
for children, confining women, and old persons. Also where
kidney difficulties are present. It acts better, lasts longer, and
is much more safe by adding 1-10 of Turpentine to it. Chloro-
form and Ether should never be given to diabetic patients.
Ether. In the use of this anaesthetic observe all that has been
said of Chloroform with the following observations: For the
first 5 or 8 minutes admit plenty of air in the use of Ether, after
which exclude the air. Protect the eyes. Never give this
anaesthetic in the presence of a lighted lamp or candle or gas,
12 ANAESTHESIA
unless the flames are high above the patient. Ether is a good
stimulant for the heart but acts badly in kidney and bronchial
diseases, and in old people, and women dn labor, and very young
children. Never give hypodermic injections of Alcohol and
Whiskey in the syncope of Ether, but give Amyl or Strychnine,
or Nitro-Glycerine. Never mix Alcohol, Ether and Chloroform
for use as an anaesthetic. Their effect as anaesthetics is quite
different, and therefore you will be liable to lose your way.
Turpencine inhalations are nearly as good as Chloroform or Ether
and are safer as an anaesthetic.
LOCAL ANAESTHETICS.
Ethyl Chloride is the best local anaesthetic.
Cocaine Hydro-Chlorate in from 5 to 20% solutions applied is
the best for the mucus tissues of the nose, mouth, throat, eye,
vagina, rectum, urethra, etc.
Carbolic Acid, pure, applied to the skin, renders it insensible to
pain. A boil or abcess may be lanced without suffering.
Ice, Snow, or Water put into a tin cup and salt added, then set
the cup upon the region to be operated upon and stir the
mixture for 10 minutes, and the parts will become insensible
to pain.
Aniline Oil, applied, will render the opening of a boil, etc., painless.
Ice Water, 30 drops injected underneath or near a skin surface to
be operated upon, renders it insensible to pain. This is un-
equaled also for local neuralgia.
3J Carbolic Acid gtts. i
Cocaine Hydro gr. 1-G
Morphine Hydro gr. 1-12
Salt gr. i
Water Desi. gtts. xxx
M sig. Inject this near the seat of pain or the spot to be
operated upon, and in 5 minutes all is ready.
ASTHMA
13
5 Chloroform
10 parts
Ether
15 parts
Alcohol
1 part
M and use through an atomizer.
3$ Solid Ex. Conium
grs. xij
Coca Butter
o s s
M- et fiat. Suppositories No. 20.
Sig. To be used locally for all
painful affections of the
anus and rectum.
HYPNOTIC ANAESTHESIA.
Breathing full, deep, and rapidly as possible and insensibility
will soon occur.
Gazing steadfastly at a bright object with eyes turned slightly
upward and to the left, and in a few minutes the patient is hyp-
notized and rendered insensible to pain.
ASTHMA.
Alkalithia, in the usual dose and persisted in, will cure Asthma of
years' standing.
Naphthalin, mixed in sugar of milk one part to twenty, and given
in four or five grain doses every three or four hours, will
act like magic in spasmodic asthma and Hay Fever. This must
be thoroughly ground in a mortar before giving.
Atropin Sulph, 1-100 grain hypodermically, will relieve in two
minutes.
Ethyl Chloride, sprayed up and down the back, quickly relieves.
Sulphide of Soda, in ordinary doses, is a good remedy.
14 ASTHMA
Arsenic, in minute doses, will relieve that form of Asthma that
occurs always after midnight, and is spasmodic.
Asthmatics are Always Dispeptics — Correct the digestion in time of
peace, and thus prevent the attack altogether.
Amyl Nitrite, by inhalation, is an instant relief.
Turpentine, by inhalation, is also very good.
Fl. Ex. Jaborandi, four drops in the morning and at noon, and
eight drops at night, is unequalled as a protective.
Ambrosia, in minute doses, is a specific for Hay Asthma. Try it
once and smile.
Hay Fever Snuff —
IJ Cocaine Hydro grs, x
Oil Eucalyptus grs. iij
Iodoform 3 i
Sugar Milk 5 i
M Use as a snuff. This relieves at once.
I£ Cocaine Hydro grs. v
Morphine Hydro grs. iij
Bismuth Sub. Nit. I , , „ K
White Sugar { ™ ^ ™
M Use as a snuff. It is very excellent.
^ Ether § i
Sp. Terebinth 5 iv
Acid Benzoic, 10% Sol. * ss
Balsam Tolu 5 ij
M sig. Irihale during an attack. This is better than all
others.
Wear Oilskin Jacket. This is a guardian angel.
Arsenite of Strychnine, 1-100 grain every two hours, quickly relieves
Asthma.
AGUE 15
Iodine, painted down the sides of the neck, will relieve in two
minutes.
Local Treatment in Hay Fever must be antiseptic. Glycozone is
one of the best.
Wear Antiseptic Absorbent Cotton that has been subjected to the
fumes of Vinegar (or wet in Vinegar and dried), in each nostril
Huring the period of Hay Asthma. This is a sure relief. Or
wear a sponge wrung out of vinegar over the nose. This is a
positive preventive in every case.
Marchand's Hydrozone and Glycozone are specific if used as
preventives.
See "Hay Fever."
AGUE (Chills and Fever).
Salt, ground to a fine soft powder and mixed with Sugar of Milk,
1 part to 100 parts of Sugar Milk, and then reground for an
hour. Take four or five grains every hour. This is a sure
cure for old cases of Ague where Quinine has been used.
Tinct. Gelsemium, in three-drop doses, will cure any case of Ague
that occurs in a non-malarial district. This is specific.
Nitric Acid (dilute), five drops in gum water, and give every two
or three hours, will cure any case in three days.
Chiniodine. Take a piece of the stick, the size of a pea, every three
hours for a few days; then less frequently until all is well.
This is a grand remedy.
Gunpowder, burned every day in the room or tent, and among
the clothing, will prevent the contagion of any disease, es-
pecially Malarial troubles.
16 ACNE
Salt, in teaspoonful doses just as you feel the chill coming, will
break up any case of Ague.
In cases of chronic Ague, sugar is always found in the urine.
Correct it and the patient is well.
ACNE.
Acne is usually a reflex trouble from the genital organs, except
such as appears on the nose, this is from the stomach.
If in a boy introduce a cold steel sound into the penis every
day for 15 to 20 minutes, and the Acne soon disappears.
If in a girl, use hot water douches with Tinct. of Camphor, 12
drops to a pint of water every night on retiring. These are sure
cures.
Sulphur, in minute doses at bedtime, is an elegant remedy.
Tinct. Pulsatilla, in three drop doses, is choice for girls.
Tinct. Belladonna, one drop four times daily, for boys.
Arsenic, in minute doses, is an excellent remedy for all skin affec-
tions, where dry scales or roughness exists.
Hepar Sulphur, in minute doses, will cure all cases of Acne of the
suppurating sort (pimples).
Hot Water to the face for half an hour every day, will cure Acne.
3$ Precipitated sulphur grs. 75
Sulphate Zinc grs. 45
Sulphate Potash 1 , , „ .
Sulphide Potash J ^
Rose Water 5 «j
M sig. Apply night and morning. This is a sure cure.
APPENDICITIS 17
For Acne Rosacea —
IJ Ex. Ergot grs. v
Ung. Zinc Oxide •"> i
M Apply locally. And give the following by the mouth:
5 Aloin grs. ij
Tinct. Xux Vomica gtts. lxviij
Tinct. Gentian Comp. § v
^t sig. Teaspoonful before meals.
5 Etheris. 5 i
Ammo. Carb. 3 i
Acid Boracic grs. xx
Water add 5 ij
2*i Apply night and morning with a flannel, and wash oft
with Jwt water. Very fine, and makes peach-like com-
plexion.
5 Oxide Zinc 5 i
Resorcin 5 i
Starch 5 i
Petrolatum 5 iiss
^4- Apply at night and wash off in the morning with
Ammon Oil.
APPENDICITIS.
An inflammation of the appendix is due more frequently to the
glands surrounding and adjacent to it, than to obstruction in the
lumen of the organ itself. Peri, and Para-typhilitis are much more
common than Appendicitis, and surgical interference is oftener
resorted to for the former troubles than the latter. Out of 21 cases
which I have observed, only 7 required operation. Nevertheless, the
21 went through the ordeal.
It is not an easy task for the surgeon to know positively the full
extent of his duty in these cases, and therefore he is justified in pro-
ceeding with his work of removal. Appendicitis is a disease which
!8 ABSCESS
is not very easy of diagnosis at times. The temperature is usually
nearly normal. Its pain is not always severe. It may progress slowly
and deceptively to a sudden and fatal termination. The pulse will
indicate the formation of pus, as a rule, and vomiting may be present.
There may be Diarrhoea or Constipation. The pain and tenderness
and circumscribed swelling are quite indicative of the disease. In the
acute form, the pain is generally reflected to the region of the um-
bilicus, and the tenderness and swelling are the only symptoms that
are purely local at the seat of the organ itself.
TREATMENT.
The medical treatment is very simple and successful.
Being fully satisfied of the trouble, and it being the first attack
the patient has had, proceed as follows :
Administer at once a grain of Calomel every hour, until 8 or 10
doses are taken. Repeat this after 24 hours have elapsed. Then
repeat in three days. The use of the drug is not especially for its
antisepsis, but it affords a mild secretion and stool; while the Saline
Cathartics produce violent watery dejections. This last may be
given at the end of the fifth day, or the morning of the sixth. No
other remedies are required. If the pain is severe, control it by
an Enema of Asafoetida, 10 or 15 grains dissolved in an ounce or
two of hot milk. Never give Opium in any form, neither before
nor after operation, in cases of Appendicitis.
At the outset, apply the ice-bag over the seat of the organ, and
continue it night and day for six days. If repeated chills occur,
look out for pus. Pyaemic chills and increased size of pulse gener-
ally indicate operative procedure, and interference.
ABSCESS.
Never lance nor open an abscess or boil until absolutely neces-
sary. It admits the air and increases the inflammation. Do not
ABSCESS 19
pick off the white point of pimples. They often become large
boils by this act.
Hepar Sulphur, in minute doses, will often prevent Abscesses and
Boils.
Silicea will quickly open a Boil or Abscess, when given in large
homeopathic doses.
Give Sulphur in minute doses at bedtime only.
If there is a general tendency to Abscess formation, it is due to
kidney or liver derangement. Sulphuric Acid, two or three drops
diluted in plenty of water two or three times daily, will correct the
tendency, if persisted in.
Cabbage Leave Poultices are very choice for all Abscess formations.
So also Potatoe Water, applied by the use of flannels wrung
out of the water while hot.
Menthol, 40% solution applied, will prevent Abscesses, Boils, etc.,
etc., and also itching eruptions.
Flour and Lard, mixed in equal parts, will bring Boils and Abscesses
to a head in a few hours. Try it and see.
Carbolic Acid, pure, one drop injected with a hypodermic needle
into the center of the Boil or Abscess, or Carbuncle, will open
it in one minute, without any knife.
Caustic Potash, applied the size of a grain of wheat, will do the
business in an hour.
For deep Abscesses, such as may form in the hip or abdomen,
or other deep structures, make a solution of —
IJ Iodoform grs. xx
Olive Oil 5 i y
20 AMENORRHEA
^i Heat the solution each time it is to be used, anB the
powder dissolves. Inject it freely with a pointed glass
or rubber syringe, or hypodermic needle. No fear of
disturbance from its use. It will heal a deep Abscess
quicker than anything else. It is specific for hip-joint
Abscess. If a sinus forms, pack it with Lactopeptin,
or make a strong solution in hot water and inject it
twice daily.
AMENORRHEA.
In delayed monthly do not give Emenegogues (something to
force a flow) ; it is ruinous to the case. Find the cause and remove it.
Pulsatilla, in minute doses, is the true remedy, especially for blonde,
mild girls with mild, tearful dispositions.
Phosphorus, in drop doses of the tincture, is the true remedy for
tall, dark girls.
Aletris, in 10-drop doses, will improve any derangement of the
genital system. If organic difficulties exist, such as imperforate
hymen, etc., surgical methods must be adopted.
If a "baby womb or ovaries" are found, use the battery mildly
every day.
Calcarea Carb., in minute doses, is the true remedy for fat, phleg-
matic girls.
Indigo, in 10-grain doses, will force a flow in 30 minutes.
Permanganate of Potash, in 2-grain capsules, will bring a flow in
a few days.
Apiol, in 5-grain capsules morning and evening, will bring a flow
and produce an abortion in a week.
haa
ABORTION I'l
If Saturated Tinct. Helonias ,3 ij
Saturated Tinct. Viburnum op.
Saturated Tinct. Prunus
Virginata
Saturated Tinct. Scutellaria
Laterflora
Saturated Tinct. Caulophyllum
Saturated Tinct. Zingiber
Officenale
^t sig. 30 drops three times daily. This is a grand rem-
edy for relaxed conditions, Leucorrhea, and Amenor-
rhea. It stimulates to childbearing and lack of sexual
appetite. Give it in simple syrup.
If Ferri Sulph. grs. xx
Aloe. Soc grs. xv
M et flat pill or capsule No. 10.
Sig. One night and morning. This will produce a flow.
Ustilago, drop doses of the fluid extract, will soon correct all delay
of monthly.
Helonine, in minute doses, is a grand remedy for delayed monthly
and womb trouble where there is depression of mind.
Santonine, in 5-grain doses once daily, is the proper thing for Chlo-
rotic patients with this trouble, unless kidney diseases are pres-
ent. Then it should not be given at all.
ABORTION.
PREVENTIVE TREATMENT.
Secale Cornutum, given in minute doses every hour or two for some
days, will prevent Abortions at the third month.
Sabina, also in minute doses, is well-nigh a specific for Abortions
during the first month, and where pain is from the back to
the pubis.
22 ANAEMIA
Rest and Tampons, to support the womb, will sometimes suffice.
Aletris, in 10-drop doses, is a grand remedy.
If there is much hemorrhage, give teaspoonful doses of ordinary
brown Vinegar, or 6-drop doses of the Tinct. of Cinnamon in hot
water.
If the case is hopeless, anaethetize the patient and remove the
contents of the womb surgically, providing it be a case up to the
third month. If pregnancy has existed longer than this, leave it to
nature; of course, always interfering if the case requires it.
If the contents of the womb are to be cast out, and hemorrhages
with little pain are occurring, pack the vaginal vault firmly with
absorbent cotton, and remove it in 12 hours, or sooner if necessary,
when the contents of the womb will follow. Ipecac, two grains, will
help you.
Hot Water Douches, in large quantities, are perfect master of hem-
orrhages accompanying all Abortions and Confinements.
Treat the case with as much consideration as if normal labor
were ensuing.
Administer, after "the event," Arnica and China Tincture, in
2-drop doses in alternation every hour or two.
ANAEMIA.
Pepto-Mangan (Gude) is the first remedy for this condition; given
in 2-teaspoonful doses after meals.
Next best is Nitrogenized Iron (Susquechloride of Iron, Ova of
Albumen, and Soda mixed). Two teaspoonfuls after meals.
Arsenic, in minute doses, is choice where there is a pale, waxy face,
or bloating of hands and face.
Gray's Glycerine Tonic is very fine for these cases.
APHONIA— APHTHAE 23
Constipation is frequently the direct cause of Anaemia and
Chlorosis. Clear the bowel by a continuous dosage of mild Laxa-
tive, such as Warner's Peristaltic Pills, two every night for a week;
then one every night until the bowel is all right. This is imperative.
Phosphate of Iron should be given to such cases, once every day,
in grain doses.
Tinct. Prickly Ash, 5 drops every three or four hours, is a very fine
tonic for these cases.
In Chlorosis, if Iron fails, give Sulphur in minutes doses. It is
specific.
APHONIA.
Argentum Metalicum, in minute doses, is specific in sudden loss. of
voice in professional speakers.
Borax Crystals, 1 grain dissolved in the mouth, quickly relieves.
Drosera, in minute doses, is excellent for all constrictions of the
vocal cords or larynx.
Moschus, in minute doses, will restore the voice in hysterical persons.
Use Electricity.
APHTHAE (Sore Mouth).
Arum Triphillum (Indian turnip, "jack in the Pulpit"), in minute
doses, for superficial ulcers and burning in the mouth.
Sulphuric Acid, in 5-drop doses, well diluted in water, for bleeding-
gums and moisture in the mouth.
Arsenic, in minute doses, where the edges of the tongue are ulcerated,
and having great prostration with diarrhoea.
24 AFTER-PAINS
Borax and Honey, mixed in any quantity, is an excellent wash.
Fluid Hydrastis | Xon-Alcoholic), mixed with water, one part to ten,
is ven- soothing and healing. Let the patient swallow the fluid,
as it acts well upon the stomach and bowels.
Argentum Xitricum, in minute doses, is also ven* choice, especially
where the corners of the mouth and inside of the cheeks are
cracked and ulcerated.
Bismuth Sub. Nitrate, applied to a sore mouth, and swallowing 5 or
10 grains two or three times daily, works wonders.
Mercurius Vivus, in minute doses, is specific for ulcers of the mouth
with great salivation, and stick}-, gummy teeth.
Xitric Acid, 5 or 10 drops in a glass of water, giving a teaspoonful
every two or three hours, is the true and only remedy for ulcera-
tions caused by Mercury, and where bleeding occurs.
AFTER-PAINS.
Amyl Xitrite. by inhalation, and giving a minute dose even' 1" or
15 minutes, will stop after-pains.
Vinegar, in teaspoonful doses, will arrest after-pains and flooding.
Prickly Ash Tincture, in five drop doses on sugar even- few hours,
is magical in effect.
Tinct. Gelsemium, in five drop doses in hot water even- half hour,
is master of the situation, and the safest and best remedy.
Try it.
Caulophyllin, in J grain doses three or four times daily, for two
or three weeks before confinement, and there will be no After-
pains, and the labor will be very easy.
ANTISEPTICS 25
Macrotin, mixed with Sugar of Milk, one part to ten, and given in
four grain doses every 20 to 30 minutes, controls After-pains
at once.
ANTISEPTICS.
Vinegar is the best and safest antiseptic, used clear or in water.
Bi-Chloride of Mercury, 7-J grains to the quart of water, is the best
for all external wounds. Never use it in the cavities of the body.
Salicylic Acid in water is good as follows —
5 Salicylic Acid grs. i
Acid Boracic grs. iv
Salt grs. iij
Water i
^i This is the formula for Thiersch's solution for Skin
Grafting use.
External Wounds should be kept pure by covering them with
Iodocrol Pulv., or Acetanelid mixed with Boracic Acid equal
parts.
Charcoal, pulverized, is a fine dressing for wounds. It keeps them
pure and clean.
There can be no better nor cheaper dressing for wounds, than Burnt
Strati'. It is antiseptic and keeps wounds clean.
Mud, fresh and moist, is magical in its purifying and healing
properties.
Oil of Peppermint is the safest and best antiseptic in the world, and
is absolutely safe in any dose or applied in any way.
26 APPARENT DEATH— APOPLEXY— BABY
APPARENT DEATH.
Hold up the finger point to a bright reflected light, and if death
is present, the finger-point will look dark, almost black. If it is
red, life is present.
Inject pure liquor Ammonia, five drops, under the skin and if
life is present, it will become red. If death be present, no effect
is noticed.
Tie a string tightly around a finger, and if life is present, it will
become dark.
Apply a lighted match to the end of the great toe, and if life is
present, a blister will occur.
APOPLEXY.
Aconite, Belladonna, or Yeratrum Yiride, in minute doses fre-
quently repeated, stand in the front rank.
Persons inclined to Apoplexy should take a dose or two of Phosphate
of Iron every day and drink large quantities of buttermilk.
This will protect from an attack.
Numbness of hands and feet, or legs, or arms in persons past 40
years of age, is ominous of approaching Apoplexy. Numb-
ness of one finger is indicative of Kidney disease.
BABY.
For syncope at birth, turn the baby upside down and slap the hip
with the hand. The youngster will soon breathe.
Use Artificial respiration. Dash cold water into the face.
Do not cut the cord until the baby breathes. Cause the mother to
take full deep breaths. It quickens the blood and causes the
child to breathe.
BED-SORES— BILIOUSNESS 27
BED-SORES.
Administer Arsenic in 3 drop doses of Fowlers Solution every 4
hours.
Alcohol frequently applied cures Bed-sores.
Resinol, applied, is the best remedy and cures quickly.
Mineral Earth or Common Clay, pulverized, is an excellent dressing
when mixed with Bismuth equal parts.
Have the patient lie upon the hair of a deer-skin, or a buffalo-skin,
and Bed-sores will not occur.
Calomel Powder, dusted on Bed-sores, keeps them clean and healthy
and will destroy maggots, etc.
If Camphorae o ss
Fl. Mucillage Accacia § i
Aqua 5 iv
M: sig. Shake well and dip pledges of lint into the solu-
tion and dress the sore twice daily. Thoroughly re-
liable in any case.
BILIOUSNESS.
Lemonade every morning without sugar, will not only prevent, but
cure Biliousness.
Podophyllin, in J grain doses every night at bed-time, soon cor-
rects the trouble.
Sodium Sulph., in two grain doses in water three times daily, cures
all such cases in a short time.
Bilious people should eat everything that is fit for food and plenty
of it, and forget that they have a stomach. This soon cures without
medicine.
28 BLADDER
Drink plenty of cold water night and morning.
Anti-Bilious Pills —
^ Calomel grs. xxx
Jalap grs. lx
Gamboge grs. xij
Tartar Emetic grs. iij
M- with Gum Arabic and beat into a mass, and make 24
pills. Dose — Two or three pills as a purgative, and
one pill every second night as a laxative.
Substituting Podophyllin for the Calomel, makes a safer and
better pill. Dose — Two or three pills at bed-time.
B
M sig. One teaspoonful as required. This remedy acts
like magic on the Kidney, Bladder, and Urethea.
For an irritable Bladder give the following —
]J Morphia sulph. grs. ij
Liq. Potassii § ss
Aqua Dest. o i ss
M sig. Teaspoonful every four hours. Excellent.
Fl. Ex. Berberis, in -J teaspoonful doses, is one of the best remedies
for all diseased conditions of the Bladder.
Uva Ursi is likewise an excellent remedy.
Benzoic Acid, 10 grains in an ounce of Alcohol, and take five drops
of the solution on sugar three or four times daily, will purify
bad smelling urine and correct the tendency to decomposition.
BLADDER.
Fl. Ex. Stigmata Maydis
5i
Fl. Ex. Queen of Meadow
5 iss
Acetate Potash
5 iij
Sp. Juniper q. s. ad
Sv
BLEEDING— BIRTH-MARK 29
Tinct. Asparagus, in minute doses, will cure stinking urine.
Cina, in minute doses, will sweeten urine, especially where the
patient is always wanting to eat something.
Tinct. Cantharis, five drops in a half glass of water, and take a tea-
spoonful every two or three hours, is a specific for Cystitis
where there is a feeling as if not through passing urine, with
intense sexual irritability.
Carbonate of Lithia, three to six grain doses, will relieve Cystitis in
a few hours.
Buttermilk, in large quantities, every day a gallon, will cure Bladder
troubles of every sort.
For dribbling urine give the following —
5 Fl. Ex. Ergot 5 ss
Strychnine 1% sol. gtts. ij
M sig. Give this dose in Chloroform water three times
daily. This is a choice remedy for wetting the bed,
and hysterical paralysis of the bladder of young women.
Fl. Ex. Ergot, \ teaspoonful in warm water, and injected into an
inflamed or relaxed bladder, is one of the most valuable reme-
dies known. Resorcin, 2% solution in water, is an excellent
injection for Cystitis. Baracic Acid, 10% in water acts well.
Glycerine and Cocaine must never be used in an irritable
bladder.
BLEEDING.
See Hemorrhage.
BIRTH-MARK.
Paint them with Collodion and they will soon disappear.
Needles pushed through a cork so that the points just come
through, then dip these points into strong Nitric Acid and quickly
press them into the mark. It cures in one week.
30 BLISTERS— BLISTERING
Paint them night and morning with Liquor Arsenicalis until
ulceration takes place. Be careful of the skin around the naevus.
BLISTERS (on Lips).
Tinct. Arnica, five drops in half glass of water, take a teaspoonful
every hour or two. It soon cures.
Common Table Salt, five grains in half glass of water, and take a
teaspoonful every hour. This will cure speedily.
Apply Camphorated Oil or Camphor Spirits. The first is best.
BLISTERING (Plasters).
Paint lightly with the Tinct. of Cantharis, over the region to be
blistered, and soon one occurs.
Be careful to watch the conduct of the Kidneys while using Can-
tharis, and if any trouble occurs with them, give Flax Seed Tea
plentifully.
Croton Oil, painted on the parts to be blistered, will produce a crop
of fine blisters in quick time.
Mustard Paste will soon produce a blister.
The best and safest plaster is the following —
Take common adhesive strap, the size required for the blister and
sprinkle on it finely pulverized Chloral. Warm the plaster and
apply. In a few minutes it blisters. It may be allowed to remain
on until the sore is well. This is a painless blister.
Mustard, if mixed with flour and vinegar, will not blister, but pro-
duces fine counter irritation.
BLOOD TEST— BLOOD POISONING 31
For a painless blistering piaster use the following —
IJ Chloral Hydrate \^ '
Camphor Gum J *"
^i and apply. This mixture makes a fluid.
BLOOD TEST.
Add a little bile to the blood to be tested, and if it is human,
small right-angled crystals are seen.
If horse's blood, cubes are seen.
If pig's blood, right-angled prisms are seen.
If sheep's blood, rhomboidal plates are seen.
If chicken's blood, cubes more or less regular are seen.
If dog's blood, the same precisely as man's blood.
These are the microscopial tests.
BLOOD POISONING.
Tinct. Baptisia stands in the front rank for Blood Poisoning. Give
it in three to five drop doses every hour or two for several days,
and no other remedy will be needed.
Arsenic, in 1-50 grain doses, is also very good.
Glycerine should be applied freely to the wound which gives rise
to the poisoning.
If the trouble arises in one of the extremities and suppuration
occurs and extends toward the body, the parts should be laid open
lengthwise of the extremity with the knife. Long gashes should
be made and Glycerine poultices applied.
32 BOILS— FURNUCLES— CARBUNCLES (CHRONIC)
BOILS— FURUNCLES— CARBUNCLES (Chronic).
First of all things to be done, is to correct the Kidney troubles
that invariably exist where Boils, etc., occur.
Gun-Powder, in -J teaspoonful doses every day, is a good remedy.
Sulphuric Acid, diluted in water, three or four drops every four or
five hours, is choice. A weak solution of the same should be
applied.
Sulphide of Arsenic, in 1-50 grain doses five or six times daily,
is a sure and certain remedy for Boils, etc., etc., also for Ton-
silitis.
Tinct. Colchicum, in small doses, is the true remedy for Boils where
Rheumatism is present.
Strong Solution of Chloral Hydrate in water and Glycerine, applied
early, will without one failure abort Boils, Furuncles, and Car-
buncles. Try it and smile.
Cabbage is the best poultice for these troubles.
For Carbuncles apply early, equal parts of Camphor Spirits and
Lime water. It will abort them.
Coal Tar, mixed in soap water (strong solution) five parts to twenty,
is an anodyne for Boils and Felons. Nothing that equals it.
It soothes the pain and brings great comfort to the afflicted.
Silicea, in ordinary doses given often, will open a Boil in 24 hours.
Give five grain doses every hour or two.
Hepar Sulphur, in minute doses every four or five hours, will soon
cure these troubles after they have opened.
See "Abscesses."
BONES— BOWELS 33
BONES.
Fluoric and Phosphoric Acids, in minute doses, are the choice rem-
edies for ulceration of Bones.
Phosphate of Lime, in minute doses, given frequently, is master of
all ulcerations of the Bones and the soft tissues. It is a specific
remedy.
Bone-pain at night will be cured by minute doses of Mercury Vivus,
two or three times daily.
Silicea, in minute doses, is a remedy of prime importance for all
bone decay. The administration of the remedy must not be
employed continuously. The usual use made of the drug, is to
exhibit it in large doses for 12 or 15 hours, and then no medicine
at all for one month.
BOWELS.
INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS.
Turpentine, in drop doses on sugar every hour, for inflammation of
the Bowel. This is specific. At the same time apply over the
belly, Castor Oil one ounce, and Turpentine one drachm, and
rub the belly well with this mixture every day and cover with
hot flannel.
Salol, five grains and Bismuth Sub. Nit, 10 grains, repeated every
four or five hours, is specific for Enteritis.
Colocynth Tincture, drop doses on sugar, is a grand remedy for
the pain of inflammation of the bowel.
Arsenite of Copper, 1-100 grain every five hours, cures in 24 to 48
hours.
34 BOWELS
Mercurius Bi-Chloride, 1-50 grain every six hours, is also a fine
remedy.
Epsom Salts, in teaspoonful doses every two hours until free move-
ment of the bowel occurs, will reduce the inflammation in 24
hours, especially if the peritoneum is affected.
Never give Opium nor Morphine in these cases, unless the patient
is abstaining from food. Even then they are injurious.
Asafoetida, 10 to 15 grains in hot milk and injected into the rectum
every two or three hours, relieves the pain at once.
Hot Water enemas relieve the pain.
Tinct. Baptisia, in five drop doses on sugar every two hours, is an
antiseptic for the bowel, and will result gratefully to all patients.
BOWEL OBSTRUCTION.
Use a bellows and fill the bowel slowly with air. Relief is instant.
Flush the bowel with two or three gallons of water in which an
ounce of Camphor tincture is put. This is a certain relief for Bowel
Obstruction.
Don't use Glycerine in any form for Bowel Obstruction. It pro-
duces too much straining and contracts the bowel.
Place a chew of Black Tobacco on the navel, and press it firmly
for an hour, will open the bowel at once by relaxation and vomiting.
Salt Water is good, three or four quarts in the bowel at a time.
Pure Coal Oil, two quarts high up in the bowel, is well recommended
and proved valuable:
BRAIN 35
BRAIN.
For Hemorrhage, see "Apoplexy."
INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN.
Tincts of Aconite and Belladonna stand in the front rank. Red face
and bounding pulse.
Tinct. Gelsemium, in frequent two drop doses, is very fine when
the head feels as if a band were around it.
Hellebore, in minute doses, for Meningitis where the head is rolled
on the pillow and the arms are in constant motion, and the
urine suppressed.
Nitro-Glycerine, in 1-100 grain doses repeated, is quite curative in
cases of awful throbbing headache, and the whole face and
jaw affected.
Yeratrum Viride, in three drop doses of the tincture, is specific.
No other remedy is needed. Repeated every two or three
hours. This is better than bleeding.
Belladonna is a good remedy for Cerbro-Spinal Meningitis. One
drop doses of the tincture repeated every hour.
No remedy stands so high in respect to cure, as Cicuta Virosa
for Cerbro-Spinal Meningitis. Give drop doses of the tincture
every 30 minutes for the first 12 hours, then every two or three
hours. It is absolutely specific. I have known no drug that meets,
so thoroughly, hopeless cases better than this, and even where the
sight of one eye is lost, and respirations hardly perceptible. It
cures in a week.
Veratrum Alb., in minute doses, is excellent for the collapse of these
cases, where cold sweat appears on the face.
36 BREASTS
HYDROCEPHALUS.
For water on the Brain, give Arnica, in minute doses. It stands
first in rank, and will cure all cases if used early.
Apis Melifica, in minute doses, is next in rank, later in the disease.
BRAIN FAG.
Phosphorus is the remedy. Two drop doses of the tincture four
times daily.
Phosphoric Acid, diluted, is also excellent.
SOFTENING OF THE BRAIN.
Phosphate of Potash is the only remedy needed in softening of the
Brain. Give it in minute doses frequently repeated.
BREASTS.
For caked breasts or nipples, apply a 3% or 4% solution of
Boracic Acid, and cover with flannel to prevent evaporation.
Hydrastis Root, mixed with 10% of sugar of milk, and applied after
nursing each time, soon cures the chapped and cracked nipples.
If the baby has a sore mouth, do not wash the application off.
Tinct. Callendula, 10% in Glycerine, is specific for sore nipples.
Oil of Spearmint applied as follows: One drachm in two ounces of
Olive Oil and applied, will not only cure cracked nipples, but
caked breasts.
Phytolacca, in three drop doses every three or four hours, and a
salve made of the same with Lanolin, will cure all tendency
to abscess of the breasts. This is a grand specific.
BREATH 37
Bismuth and Castor Oil, equal parts by weight, mixed and applied,
is good for cracks.
To increase the flow of milk, have the mother drink Schlitz's malt
Beer, or oatmeal water freely, and take by the mouth the following:
Tinct. of Galega, one drachm every five or six hours in plenty of
water.
Sulphurous Acid, in water one part to seven, and given often dur-
ing the day, will cure swollen cracked breasts.
Ice in a rubber bag, applied to the back, opposite the Breasts, will
increase their size. Hot water used the same way, will diminish
their size.
Tinctures of Belladonna and Camphor, one part to ten parts, will
dry up the milk in the Breasts without fail. Apply it three or
four times daily all over the chest and neck.
Camphorated Oil is excellent, applied the same way.
BREATH.
For offensive Breath, give Baptisia tincture, in two or three drop
doses. It will purify it.
The best remedy, is to correct the digestion and attend to the
teeth.
Figs, boiled in milk, and drank before going to bed, will purify the
breath and aid in digestion.
Permanganate of Potash, one grain to the ounce of water, and rinse
the mouth well, will not only purify the breath, but stop tooth-
ache and prevent disease of the teeth.
Walnut pits, eaten, will purify the breath even though you eat onions.
38 BRONCHITIS
Listerine will do the same. One teaspoonful clear or in water, will
disguise the odor of onions.
Chlorine water, 10% solution, will cover up Tobacco breath.
Cardamon Seeds, eaten, disguise whiskey breath.
BRONCHITIS.
ACUTE FORM.
Veratrum Viride, 20 drops in half glass of water, 2 teaspoonfuls
every 2 hours, will soon relieve the trouble. Nothing else
needed in average cases.
Tinct. Caustic Ammonia, one to two drops in plenty of water every
hour or two, is a wonderful remedy for all acute forms of Lung
trouble, especially Bronchitis and Pleurisy.
Tinct. Aconite, in drop doses repeated every hour, is a very reliable
remedy.
Iodine Tincture, put into hot water and inhale the fumes, is good
treatment for either acute or chronic Bronchitis.
Phosphate of Iron, in minute doses, will control in 24 hours any
case of Bronchitis that is acute. Five grains every two hours.
CHRONIC FORM.
Syrup Iodide of Iron, in teaspoonful doses, is the true remedy.
Bichromate of Potash, in minute doses, where the secretions are
yellow and ropy.
Tartar Emetic, in very minute doses, where the secretions are diffi-
cult to cough up, and the throat is full of rattling phlegm.
Burn Sulphur in the patient's room, and the relief is marvelous.
BRUISES 39
Two very choice prescriptions for Bronchitis, either acute or
chronic, as well as all forms of cough, are —
^ Balsam Fir ->
Balsam Tolu Laa § iss
Oil Anise J
Syrup Simple add 5 n J
M sig. Two teaspoonfuls every three or four hours.
Or
Balsam Fir
3ss
Oil Tar
gtts. XXX
Spt. Fermenti opt.
O.ss
Syrup Simple
§vi
R
M sig. Two teaspoonfuls every three or four hours.
These are choice.
BRUISES.
Arnica Tincture, in drop doses in water, is the first remedy to think
of for Bruises. Give it every two or three hours.
Camphor Tincture and water, one part to 50, and applied by cloths
soaked in this solution, is the best application for recent Bruises.
Pond's Extract is a good application, equal parts with Bay Rum
or Gin.
To prevent discoloration of a bruised face, or eye, paint the parts
with a strong solution of Capsicum tincture. This is the pugilist's
safeguard against "black eyes."
Starch, moistened and applied, will remove all discoloratons of the
skin.
Beefsteak and Rotten Apples are good poultices for bruises.
See "Sprains." (Gargling Oil.)
40 BUNIONS— BURNS AND SCALDS
BUNIONS.
Tinct. Veratrum Viride, applied every two or three hours, will
quickly remove all the tenderness of Bunions, and reduce the
inflammation. Continue the application for a day or two.
Soap, of the ordinary kind applied as a plaster, is good for Bunions.
]$ Carbolic Acid 5 ij
Tinct. Iodine 5 ij
Glycerine 5 ss
M and apply with a brush every day lightly. Sure cure
for Bunions of every sort.
BURNS AND SCALDS.
The first remedy as an application, is equal parts of Lime water
and Olive Oil, mixed and applied freely. Cover with a soft cloth
and repeat often. This excludes the air and heals the injury, and is
the celebrated Carron Oil.
Anything that will exclude the air, is a proper application for
Burns and Scalds, except such as contain Starch. The starch cakes
and sticks to the injury.
Pulverized Charcoal is a remedy of prime importance. Put it on
thickly and dry.
Burnt Flour is good.
Never put cold water applications upon burns and scalds. Hot
water or holding the burnt surface to the stove, is a proper thing
' to do. Heat extracts the burn.
Alcohol, made cold by ice, is a good application.
Cantharis, five drops of the tincture in a glass of hot water and
applied, is a good dressing.
CANCER 41
Oil of Peppermint, applied, stops pain and burning instantly.
Eggs, yolk and all, is one of the very best dressings for Burns and
Scalds.
Lanolin is a very choice application. Open all blisters first.
White Lead Paint, mixed to the consistency of cream with Lin-
seed Oil, is all right.
Oxide of Zinc Ointment, may be used with good success.
If ulceration occurs, apply the following —
I£ Aristol grs. x
Balsam Peru gtts. x
Castor Oil 5 i
M Apply once daily on a linen cloth.
Flax Seed poultice is fine for ulcerated burns. So also is Tar Plaster.
If the Kidneys become affected, as they do in severe burns and
scalds, drop doses of Camphor should be given, or minute doses of
Cantharis.
Open all blisters early and if sloughing occurs, dress the wound
with "Tar Plaster."
Campho-Phenique is valuable for burns of every degree especially
if the skin is not broken. If the skin is broken dilute the
Campho-Phenique with Olive Oil or Lanolin, 1 part to 5.
CANCER.
There is no known cure for Cancer.
Protoneuclin affords the best encouragement of any known rem-
edy and application. Dust it on the open sore every day twice, and
administer at the same time, five grains three times daily. It keeps
the sore clean and pure, and no doubt, if applied early, will afford
considerable encouragement.
42 CALCULI— CARBUNCLE
Calcarea Carb. (Carbonate of Lime), in minute doses three or four
times daily, is said to have cured Cancers and check their
growth if persisted in.
Resorcin, 5 parts and Vaseline 20 parts, mixed and applied, is
thought to have cured Cancer of the face.
Thuja Tincture, by the mouth and applied, is recommended highly.
(See Lupus.)
Surgery has no doubt saved many lives that otherwise would
have been sacrificed to Cancer, and Malignant Growths. Do not
sacrifice your common sense at the shrine of Cancer Quacks. Cancer
is a constitutional trouble, involving groups and chains of the
glandular system, and it cannot be done by pastes or applications of
any kind. The surgeon is the proper remedy and cure, if any exists.
CALCULI.
See "Gravel — Kidney — Liver."
CARBUNCLE.
Inject into a Carbuncle at its point or points with a hypodermic
syringe, deeply introduced, one drop of pure Carbolic Acid. Repeat
this at every point of opening of the Carbuncle. It will turn wrong-
side-out in a few minutes, and relieve the trouble entirely. This
also is the proper treatment for large Boils. It is safe and only
painful for a short time. Follow this with "Tar Plaster" dressing.
Tinct. Arnica, by the mouth one drop every hour, is one of the
nearest specific medicines for Carbuncles.
Take a large tea-cup and burn inside of it a paper that has been
saturated with Alcohol, and Turpentine, equal parts, and as it
burns apply the cup over the Carbuncle. Thus "Cupping" occurs,
and the pus will be drawn from the sore. This is good treatment
CATALEPSY— CATARRH 43
and saves weeks of suffering. Dress the sore, after cupping it, with
the juice of Marigold and Glycerine, equal parts; this is inestimable
as a dressing for all of these troubles.
Silicea, in minute doses, every hour for 24 hours, is a grand remedy
and opens Boils without the knife.
Hepar Sulphur (Sulphuret of Lime), in minute doses, is also a true
medicine for Carbuncles and Boils.
Applying Camphor and Lime water, in equal parts, will, if used
early, abort Boils and Carbuncles.
Coal Tar, five parts, and Soapy Water, 20 parts, mixed and applied,
will not only stop the pain of Carbuncles, but abort them. It
acts like magic.
Caustic Potash, the size of a pea bound upon a Carbuncle or Boil,
will open it without the knife.
See "Boils."
CATALEPSY.
Copper Acetate, in very minute doses, will not only cure, but pre-
vent Catalepsy as it will all spasms and convulsions.
Melilotus, five drops of the tincture three times daily, will not only
control convulsions and fits of all sorts, but it will cure the
patient suffering from them; even Epilepsy will yield to this
drug.
CATARRH.
Real genuine Catarrh of the nose cannot be cured. It can be
relieved and the patient made more comfortable by proper treat-
ment. Nasal Catarrh is curable when confined to the mucus
membrane of the nose and throat.
-aa grs. ix
44 CATARRH
Snuff for Catarrh —
I> Iodoform
Boracic Acid
Bismuth Sub. Nit.
Elm Bark Pulv. gi
M Use as a snuff every few hours.
^ Naphthalin Pulv. 3 i
Lycopodium Pulv. § ss
M Use as a snuff three or four times daily.
For Acute Forms —
^ Cocaine grs. x
Menthol grs. x
Camphor grs. x
Benzoinol g i
M and apply to the parts affected twice daily.
Fluid for Spraying —
Thymoline stands in the front rank to be used through a Birming-
ham Spray. Equal parts in water three or four times daily.
I> Thymol grs. x
Eucalyptol gtts. xx
Menthol grs. xx
Oil Cubebs grs. xxx
Benzoinol * iv
Oil Rose Mary q. s.
M and use by atomizer three times daily.
Sabolol spray is very similar to the foregoing, having the addition
only of Sandel Wood Oil. This is a good preparation.
Dobeii s Solution for Nose and Throat trouble —
T$ Acid Carbolic
Sodii Bi-Carb.
Solii Bi-Borate
Glycerine ." i
Pinus Canadensis (dark) 3 ij
Aqua Dest. o * v
pa grs. vij.
CAUSTICS 45
^4- and use as a spray. Be careful of explosions when
preparing this.
5 Menthol grs. x
Albolene 5 iss
M and use as a spray. This is a good remedy for relief.
For a dry, scaly condition of the nose insert a pledget of dry
absorbent cotton into the nostril every day, and wear it during the
waking hours. Alternate the nostrils. This is absolutely curative
of this form of Catarrh.
IJ Hydrarg, Bi-Chloride 1-2000% 3 ij
Quinine Muriate grs. x
Glycerine and
Carbolic Ac. 5% add. * i ss
Mr and apply on gauze to the nostrils, and administer the
following : *
^ Naphthalin o ij
Sugar Milk o i
M et, triturate thoroughly and divide into 100 powders.
Sig. Take one every three or four hours. This is the
nearest to a specific remedy for Catarrh of any known,
especially chronic forms.
Strong Sage Tea, 10-drop doses, and apply the same to the nose, is
a very fine remedy.
Argentum Nitricum, in minute doses, taken morning and evening,
is one of the very best remedies.
CAUSTICS.
I> Chloride of Zinc 3 i
Flour 5 i
M- and make a paste with water. Apply this as a caustic
to ulcers and proud flesh. Follow by a dressing of
Oxide of Zinc Ointment.
Iron solutions are very mild caustics when applied.
46 CHANCRES— CHANGE OF LIFE
Probably one of the best caustics is pure Nitrate of Silver. Its
effect can be instantly controlled by a strong Salt solution. This
neutralizes it at once.
Painless Caustic —
5 Arsenous Acid
grs. i
Morphia Sulph.
grs. i
Calomel
grs. viij
Pulv. Gum Arabic
xlviij
M and apply. It is painless.
Pulverized Sanguinaria, applied, removes proud flesh quickly.
CHANCRES (Syphilis).
Keep them clean by washing several times daily.
For hard Chancre, 'either remove it with a knife, or let it alone,
and keep the parts clean. Dust Calomel on the sore once daily.
For soft Chancre apply a 10% solution of Cocaine, and after 15
minutes burn deeply all over the sore with pure Nitric Acid, applied
with a glass-rod. Apply a cold, moist dressing for 24 hours, then
dust with Calomel powder every day, and keep the sore perfectly
clean with Peroxide of Hydrogen solution in water.
CHANGE OF LIFE (Menapause).
No remedy covers so many cases as Lachesis, in minute doses,
especially where the clothing feels too heavy for the abdomen, and
the patient is worse after sleep.
Sulphur, in minute doses, is to be thought well of in these cases
where the feet burn and must be put out of bed to get them
comfortable, and there are hot flushes, or waves, with restless
sleep.
CHAPPED LIPS OR HANDS— CHILBLAINS 47
Nux Vomica, in minute doses, where the patient is wakeful, irritable,
and tired in the morning.
Gelsemium, in minute doses, where there are waves of heat or pain
from the Uterus toward the head.
Cimicifuga, and Caulophyllum, in 2 or 3-drop doses of the tincture
every five hours, are among the first remedies.
For cough at the Change of Life give Syrup Iodide of Iron, in
teaspoonful doses, after meals. This is the specific.
CHAPPED LIPS OR HANDS.
Resinol is the one and only application that will ever be needed.
If the hands are in water much, an application of benzoin should
be made. Several coats with a camel-hair brush forms an artificial
covering and protects from moisture.
An application of pure Vinegar is a very excellent cure. Use it
frequently as an application.
CHILBLAINS.
I> Zinc Sulph 3 ij
Tannic Acid 3 ij
Rose Water 5 iij
M and apply. This is very valuable.
1$ Veratrin grs. x
Vaseline § i
M and apply. This is specific.
Persons afflicted with continued attacks of Chilblains should wear
cotton stockings next to the foot and woolen over them. Do not
expose the feet to the sudden heat of a stove.
48 CHILL— CHOKING— CHOLERA
Paint a Chilblain with Oil of Eucalyptus, and lo! it disappears
as if by magic.
To cure Chilblains, or the tendency, give 1-12 grain of Agaricin
every four or five hours. It is a grand specific. This is the extract
of the common Toad-stool.
CHILL
For any sudden chill from cold take one drop of Camphor Tinc-
ture, on sugar, every 10 minutes. Two or three doses will warm
you and prevent "taking cold," no matter what the exposure.
CHOKING.
If from some food in the throat, elevate the shoulders and arms
and press the head forward. The food will pass downward.
Do not pound upon the back of a choking person, but turn him
wrong-side-up and run the finger into the throat as far as possible.
If choking from worms, give Salt Water drinks.
If from fish-bones, give bread crumbs to eat.
CHOLERA.
Arsenous Acid, in minute doses, is the nearest specific for Cholera
and Yellow Fever. Repeat the dose frequently.
Baptisia Tincture, in 5-drop doses, is a grand remedy.
Camphor will cure many cases when they have reached the collapse.
Give it in drop doses every 10 minutes.
Copper Acetate, in minute doses every hour, will cure when all
else fails.
Yeratrum Alb., in drop doses of the tincture, is very choice.
CHOLERA INFANTUM AND CHOLERA MORBUS 49
It is said that Chloroform, in tablespoonful dose (one dose) has
cured in 30 minutes. It is safer and better in 20 to 30 drops on
sugar every hour or two.
Sulphuric Acid, 30 drops in a glass of water, is said to not only cure,
but prevent infection. This is reliable.
IJ Ipecac. grs. xxx
Tartar Emetic grs. ij
Water 5 "J
M and give at one dose. After thorough vomiting, give
8 or 10 quarts of hot water to clean the stomach. Then
follow with the foregoing Sulphuric Acid.
CHOLERA INFANTUM AND CHOLERA MORBUS.
m
Give to infants one or two grains of Resorcin in plenty of water,
and this will cure them.
Arsenic, in minute doses, serves well.
Copper Arsenite, 1-100 grain 3 or 4 pills daily, will control any case.
Ipecac, where vomiting predominates, given in minute doses every
hour, will cure.
Tinct. Iodine, 1-drop doses, is a fine remedy where the patient is
emaciated by stool, or marasmus.
Vegetable Charcoal, in minute doses, is a grand remedy where the
stools are bad-smelling.
Dil. Sulphuric Acid, in 2 or 3-drop doses, is a fine remedy.
See "Diarrhoea."
50 CHOREA— COLDS, Etc.
CHOREA (St. Vitus' Dance).
Arsenic, in 3-drop doses of Fowler's Solution to begin with, and
gradually increasing the dose until it is 10 or 12 drops, two or
three times daily. Then decrease gradually. So repeat up and
down, with the doses.
Stramonium, in minute doses, is the true specific for Chorea.
Hyoscin, 1-50 grain every day hypodermically, will control the
trembling and the disease.
Strychnia, increasing doses according to age, will cure Chorea.
Specific. Correct the disorganized genitals, as they are frequently
the cause of Chorea.
CICATRIX (Scars).
To remove a scar, shave off the scar and paint every day with
the following:
IJ Per Chloride Iron 5 i
Collodion 5 ij
M and apply. Nothing will be left but a line.
Keloid formations may be removed by this treatment.
C0CCY0DINIA (Neuralgia of the End of the Spine).
Inject 10 drops of Chloroform, hypodermically, at the seat of
pain, and cure at once. Repeat when necessary.
COLDS— COUGHS— CORYZA.
To prevent "taking cold" after exposure, take 1 drop of Tinct.
Camphor, on sugar, and repeat in an hour. Safe and reliable.
If you take cold easily, do not sit with your back to a draught
or hot stove.
COLDS— COUGHS— CORYZA 51
♦
Bathe the neck and chest in cold salt water every morning upon
irising from bed. This is a sure preventive.
Remedies —
5 Aconite Tinct.
3i
Gelsemium Tinct.
5i
Belladonna Tinct.
- 3i
Syrup Simple
5"j
M sig. Take 10 to 15 drops every two or three hours.
It will speedily relieve an acute cough and cold.
^ Tinct. Aconite 3 i
Tinct. Belladonna 3 ij
Tinct. Gelsemium 3 ij
M sig. Take six drops in water at bedtime. This is
specific.
One of the very best remedies for an acute cough and cold is
Gray's Glycerine Tonic Comp." 4 ounces; to this add 5 grains of
3odeine; shake and take a teaspoonful clear every 2 hours. Children
alf the dose.
Morphia Sulph.
grs. iij
Spirits Ether Comp.
3 iss
Syr. Tolu
1„ % .
haa 51
Syr. Squilla
Syr. Prunis Virg.
Aqua or Glycerine
ijss
sig." Teaspoonful every
four hours.
Balsam Fir
5ss
Oil Tar
3ss
Spr. Fermenti opt.
Oss
Syrup Simple
5vi
5
M- sig. Take 2 teaspoonfuls every four hours. This is a
grand cough syrup.
52 COLDS— COUGHS— CORYZA
For Coryza use the following —
1} Cocaine Mur. grs. vi
Bismuth Sub Carb. grs. xi
Talc Pulv. 3 iss
M sig. Snuff every two hours.
)rants —
IJ Syrup Tolu
jaa § iss
Gum Muc. Acacia
Spirits Nitre Dulc.
3ij
Ammon. Carb.
5i
Tartar Emetic
grs.
Syrup Simple
o * v
M sig. Teaspoonful every four hours. If the trouble
acute there may be added, in place of the Tartar
Emetic, one drachm of Tinct. Veratrum Viride. If the
patient is consumptive, add Kreosotum, 60 drops.
One of the good old-fashioned Cough Cures is the following:
3$ Tartar Emetic grs. i
Dover's Powder Pulv. grs. xx
Aqua or Syr. Simple § ii
M sig. Teaspoonful every two hours. This is one of the
best remedies for common use. Children half the dose. I
Nitrate of Sanguinaria, in minute doses, three or four times daily, I
may be relied upon thoroughly to cure all colds in a few days.
Bromide of Ammonia, 5 drachms, and water 3 or 4 ounces, mixed. I
This makes an excellent cough liquid. Take a teaspoonful three I
or four times daily.
Syrup Iodide of Iron, in teaspoonful doses, is a grand Cough medi-
cine, especially for chronic cough.
G
G
G:
G
Gi
Gi
Gi
Gi
Gi
Gi
Gi
Gi'
Gi'
relieve
All
COLIC 53
DIAGNOSTIC INDICATIONS FOR COUGH.
Give Bryonia, cough worse when coming into a warm room.
Give Phosphorus, cough worse when coming into open air.
Give Bryonia, cough worse on motion.
Give Rhus Tox., cough worse on resting.
Give Lycopodium, cough worse at 4 p. m.
Give Lachesis, cough worse after sleep.
Give Arsenicum, cough worse from 1 to 4 a. m.
Give Apis, must rise up in bed and is better on motion.
Give Belladonna, cough worse by lying down.
Give Phosphorus, cough worse on rising up and on motion.
Give Cuprum, cough better by drinking.
Give Drosera, cough worse by drinking.
Give Pulsatilla, catarrhal cough or cold where the patient is
relieved in the open air and worse in a warm room. It acts like magic.
All these remedies must be given in the minute dose frequently
repeated.
COLIC
Colocynth, in minute doses or in drop doses of the tincture, is a
specific for Colic.
\ Hot Coffee, injected into the rectum, will relieve in five minutes.
Give it to the patient to drink ; also very hot.
i dail;
lays,
Ifffl
mixei
ttltbfl
Hot Water, drank in large quantities, will control Colic pains in
20 minutes.
Dioscorea Tincture or Fluid Extract, in half-teaspoonful doses, will
cure in 20 minutes and keep the trouble away.
Baby's Colic —
Oil Peppermint, in drop doses on sugar, is the remedy.
Hop Tea, sometimes, is also good.
54 COLLAPSE— COMPLEXION
COLLAPSE.
Ammonia, in any of its forms, is safe and reliable, given in drop or
grain doses.
Xitro- Glycerine, 1-50 grain, hypodermically, is the first to be thought
of in collapse due to any cause, especially from Chloroform and
heart troubles.
Opium, in 40-drop doses, in collapse of sunstroke, is specific.
Musk, by inhalation.
Strychnia Sulph., drop doses of a 1% solution, or 1-50 grain hypo-
dermically, in collapse from any cause, especially from use of]
an aneasthetic or from heart failure.
Never give Alcohol, in any form, in collapse due to administration
of Ether. Give Nitro-Glycerine or Strychnine.
In collapse from loss of blood give large injections of Salt Water.
COMPLEXION.
To beautify the complexion use the following —
IJ Etheris o l
Ammonia Carb. 5 i
Acid Boracic grs. xx
Aqua § ij
M and apply with a flannel night and morning, and when
dry wash off with hot water. This will remove all
roughness of the skin, pimples, black-heads, and
freckles.
Cream Balm —
^ Thymol grs. iij
Bismuth Sub. Carb. grs. xv
01. Gaultheria gtts. ij
Lanolin 3 i
M sig. Apply night and morning, and become beautiful.
CONSTIPATION 55
IJ Benzoic Acid Tinct. 5 iij
Rose Water 5 x
M sig. Teaspoonful in a pint of water and wash the face
and hands. Use the same for freckles and eruptions
on the face.
Carrot Soup or Carrot Water, eaten with brown bread, will beau-
tify the complexion.
Sulphur, boiled in milk and applied, is good.
Lanolin, rubbed into wrinkles and "crow's feet," will remove them
in one month. It is harmless and reliable.
CONSTIPATION.
In most persons Constipation is due to one of two causes,
namely: either an irritable rectum, or anus, as is often the case in
infants and small children; or the absence of sufficient fluids in the
body to flush the alimentary tract.
Women are the subjects of Constipation. It is usually their
chief-stock-in-trade. Why is this true of women? Because women
do not drink cold water enough to supply the needs of the bowel.
Their beverage is tea, coffee, or cocoa, or chocolate, etc. Women
are neglectful of nature's calls to duty. They must wash the dishes,
or sweep the floor, or do some other household service, while nature
is pleading for relief. This is a sin for which they will sooner or later
repent in sackcloth and ashes.
Of course, it must be said of women that the lower segment of
the bowel is more patulous than in men, and therefore more room
for an accumulation of fecal material, without notice or discomfort.
This encourages the habit of neglect; but if women would only drink
plenty of cold water, Constipation would be rarely found. How can
the trouble be cured? This is a question of prime importance.
Answer :
56 CONSTIPATION
TREATMENT.
If due to irritations in the rectum or anus, these must be cor-
rected by healing applications. One of the best is the following —
IJ Solid Ex. Aesculus Hippo. 5 ss
Lanolin 5 iv
M sig. Use a teaspoonful through a small glass syringe
morning and evening. If Piles or Fissures exist, this
will cure them. In addition to the above, there should
be taken three times daily 1 drop of the tincture of
Horse Chestnut (Aesculus Hippo.) in a little water.
Collinsonia (Stone Root) tincture, in 2-drop doses, is a specific for
the Constipation of women, especially if Piles exist. You can
stake your life on this. This remedy covers more of the ills
of women than any other one known.
Ichthyol, in 6-grain doses in capsules three times daily, will cure
chronic Constipation in one month.
Nux Vomica, in very minute doses every morning before breakfast,
will cause the bowel to move in half an hour.
Tinct. Bryonia, in drop doses three times daily, for dry, hard, burnt
stools.
Opium, in minute doses, where the stool is in balls and round lumps.
Peristaltic Pills, put up by Warner of Philadelphia, is one of the
grandest remedies on the market, and may be relied upon to do
all claimed for them.
Figs, boiled in milk and drink four ounces every night, is a good
remedy.
Lemonade, without sugar, every morning before breakfast, aids in
the cure of Constipation.
CONSTIPATION 57
Sulphur, in grain doses at bedtime, affords one of the best remedies
for Constipation.
Equal parts of ground Senna, Jalap, and Cloves mixed. Take a
teaspoonful at liberty. There will be no griping. If you mix this in
syrup simple you have the much-talked-of "Fig Syrup." House-
hold remedy.
Cold Water, two glassfuls every night and morning, will regulate
the bowel better and more certainly than all the Laxatives or
Cathartics known.
Cathartics —
^ Sodii Bi-Carb.
Sugar of Milk -aa by weight q. s.
Mercurius Dulc. [Calomel]^
M sig. Take the size of two large peas at bedtime. There
will be no griping.
R Podophyllin 1 , .
r _ _f „ , haa ers. vi
Ex. Belladonna J &
M et ft, pills No. 12
Sig. One at bedtime.
^ Tinct. Aloes et Myrrh ,
Fl. Ex. Cascara Sag. J aa § i
Syrup Simple L
M sig. Teaspoonful before meals. This is dangerous, as
it will produce Piles if continued; as will any Cathartic
in which Aloes form the chief ingredient.
Epsom Salts, two heaping teaspoonfuls before breakfast in cold
water, is very satisfactory, but must not be indulged in too often.
They are too cooling to the system.
Blue Flag, taken in 5-grain doses, is a Cathartic.
58 CONSUMPTION
Castor Oil, one ounce, is a Cathartic whose after-effect is Constipa-
tion. If taken in continued 10 or 15-drop doses it will regulate
the bowel of constipated persons, especially children. Mix it
with Glycerine, equal parts, and the taste and smell will not be
noticed.
Bermudah Onion, one every night; and give it to your children, and
bid good-bye to all Constipation and sleeplessness.
Sugar of Milk, 3 teaspoonfuls in hot milk or water, will move the
bowel in an hour, if taken before breakfast.
Brewer's Yeast, in cupful doses, is a sure physic.
Ignatia, in minute doses, for constipation of infants.
Yerbascum and Alumina, in minute doses, are also good.
CONSUMPTION.
Consumption cannot, so far as known, be cured. Climate, with
good, wholesome food and drink, afford the best treatment.
The Murphy treatment of hypodermic injections of Nitrogen Gas
into the plural cavity, over the seat of the disease, and allowed to
remain for several weeks before its removal, offers some hope for the
Consumptive. By this the "rest" cure is achieved, and the lung is
collapsed by the pressure of the gas, and the germs are destroyed
by the pressure. This is a painless and non-dangerous treatment.
Great encouragement is offered by this method.
Baptisia, or Sulphur, or Glycerine, or Morrhul, are offered for
trial.
Consumptives are usually sexually starved, or sexually over-fed
persons. It is difficult to prescribe for such persons. You cannot
recommend its indulgence by the unmarried, and you cannot control
the married.
CONTAGION— CORNS t
CONTAGION (Infection).
Gum of Myrrh, a small fragment carried in the mouth, will prever
contagion of every sort.
Gun-powder, burned in the house and near the clothing, will prever
contagion. Keep the clothing saturated with the gas.
Vinegar, in tablespoonful doses three or four times daily, will protec
from Small-pox infection.
Onions, sliced up and placed in saucers about the house, is sai<
to protect against Contagion.
Sulphur Fumes are likewise good, but not absolute.
Tinct. Belladonna, in 2-drop doses, will prevent Scarlet Fever infec
tion.
Sulphuric Acid, diluted, and in 8 or 10-drop doses, taken in plenty c
water, will prevent Yellow Fever and Cholera.
Arsenic, 1-30 grain, will protect against Cholera.
Arsenite of Copper, in 1-100 grain doses, will do the same.
CORNS.
Apply common table salt night and morning, rubbing the Cor:
with the thumb after having dipped it into water and then into th
salt. This is absolutely a cure of any hard Corn in one month.
Vinegar on lint or cotton, and applied fresh every night and morning
cures soft Corns. This is absolute.
Never soak Corns in hot water, especially if they are inflamed an
tender. Soak them in cold water in which Tinct. of Veratrum Virid
has been used. This reduces inflammation. A good way is to appl
the Veratrum Viride on lint after the Corn has been soaked in th
cold water. Do this every night and morning, and all tendernes
will disappear in twenty-four hours.
«0 CRAMPS
Never cut Corns. Scrape them with the finger-nail, being careful
not to make them bleed. It is very dangerous and has cost many
a life.
Treat a Corn as if it were something of value to you. and it will
engage your attention and be cured.
Wash the feet every day once and you will never have corns.
Putman's Corn Paste —
5 Solid Ex. Cannabis Indica grs. x
Salicylic Acid grs. x
Collodion 5 i
M and apply once daily. This is no good and is not the
intelligent method of treatment.
Lemon, bound on the Corn every night, will completely cure it in
one week. This is good for hard and soft Corns, also for Bun-
ions and Chilblains.
CRAMPS.
Metallic Copper, in minute doses, is a specific for Cramps.
Colocynth, 1 drop of the tincture on sugar every 15 or 20 minutes,
is specific for Colic.
Valeriana, in minute doses, is good for all Cramps.
Turpentine, in 10 to 20-drop doses in hot water, relieves at once.'
To stop Cramps in the calf of the leg or the sole of the foot, take
a thick cord and wrap it once around the limb or foot, over the seat
of trouble, and draw the ends tightly for one minute, and all Cramp
is gone. This is positively a quick and reliable relief.
See "Spasms and Colic."
CROUP— CYSTITIS— DANDRUFF
CROUP.
Tinct. Aconite, in minute doses, alternated with Spongia Tosta,
minute doses every five minutes, will stop Croup in 30 minuti
The next day give minute doses of Phosphorus to prevent
return of the trouble. 15 drops of the tincture in half glass
water and give a teaspoonful every two hours.
Turpentine, in 3-drop doses every few minutes, will cure in 30 mi
utes. Put some of it in hot water and let the patient info
the fumes.
Bromine soon cures Croup.
For membranous Croup, spray the throat with a solution of Pa
creatin. It dissolves the membrane. Or, use the following in t
same way:
Trypsin, or Lime Water, or Liquor Potassi, or 10% solution
Lactic Acid in Glycerine, or Phosproric Acid (Dil.), and adminisl
Bichromate of Potash in minute doses every 10 minutes. These d
ferent drugs should be used separately.
Hepar Sulphur, in minute doses, and if after 30 minutes the case
not relieved and the child is in danger of suffocating, perfoi
Tracheotomy at once.
CYSTITIS.
See "Bladder."
DANDRUFF.
The best application for Dandruff is the following:
I£ Quinine Sulph. grs. xx
Cupric Sulph. . grs. v
Bay Rum or Cologne Water § x
M- and apply to the roots of the hair once every day.
B2
DEAFNESS
3
Hydrarg. Bi-Chlor.
grs.v
Tinct. Cantharis
gtts. vij
Bay Rum
5 viij
Glycerine
oi
M
and apply to the scalp once
daily.
9
Camphor Spts.
oi
Boracic Acid Sat. Sol.
5 1
Chloral Water
I «j
Glycerine
5ss
Oil Rose Mary
gtts. XV
Whiskey
ov
M and apply freely once daily.
Vinegar, diluted in plenty of water, is very excellent for Dandruff, or
it may be applied pure.
Administer one of the following drugs according to the condition
manifest in the patient, namely —
Arsenic for dry, scaly condition of the scalp.
Hepar Sulphur for a pustular eruption of the scalp.
Graphites for a moist eruption, having a honey-like fluid. This is
specific for all eruptions and skin diseases where this honey-like
fluid exists. It is frequently found on the ears or behind them,
or on the scalp. See. "Scalp and Hair."
DEAFNESS.
Mullein Oil is mentioned as being a great remedy, dropped into
the ear.
If wax exists in the ear, remove it by putting into the ear a satu-
rated solution of Bi-Carbonate of Soda. This will dissolve the wax.
Follow this with six drops of Castor Oil, and repeat twice daily until
the ear is clean.
DELIRIUM TREMENS 63
Glycerine is a good dressing for the ear in deafness.
Consult a Specialist.
See "Ear."
DELIRIUM TREMENS.
One or two drops of pure Carbolic Acid, taken in plenty of
water, is a very choice home remedy.
Give Strychnia, 1% solution, two drops in water every hour.
Hydrobromate of Hyoscin, 1-50 grain hypodermically, is the remedy.
Agaricin, 1-12 grain every two hours, is par excellence.
Hot Water, drink large quantities, is all that is needed, in addition
two teaspoonful doses of hot clear coffee every hour.
Extract of Oats is a good remedy.
Vinegar, in tablespoonful doses every half hour, clears up the case
in a few hours.
Ammonia, in two drop doses in water, is sufficient for these cases.
Beef-tea with plenty of Cayenne pepper, is one of the great specifics.
Most cases recover without any treatment whatever. Good
nursing is usually all that is needed.
Quiet the nerves with the following nerve and heart tonic —
If Pot. Bromide 3 vi
Tinct. Digitalis 5 ij
Elixir Simple § ij
Aqua § ij
M sig. Two teaspoonfuls every two, three or four hours
as required. This is specific.
64 DIABETES— DIARRHOEA
DIABETES.
Pure Kreosotum, four to six drops daily, give one or two drops as
a dose in water.
Skim-Milk, large quantities every day and no other food or drink,
is said to cure this disease.
Lactic Acid, five drops of a 10% solution in Alcohol, three times
daily, is recommended.
Rhus Aromatica Fluid Extract, in 30 drop doses, is recommended
highly.
Uranium Nitrate, in minute doses, four times daily, has cured several
cases for me, which had been long standing. With this let the
patient eat anything he wants, but avoid stimulants of every
kind, and drink skim-milk.
DIARRHOEA.
Iris Versicolor (Blue Flag), in drop doses of the tincture every
hour, will cure more cases of Diarrhoea and Cholera Morbus
and Cholera Infantum, than any known medicine. I have seen
it do miracles. •
Ipecac, in minute doses, where the stool is green and Nausea pre-
dominates, is absolutely to be relied upon as curative.
Arsenite of Copper, 1-100 grain three or four times daily, where the
stool is yellow and violent cramps occur, also for Diarrhoea
of Consumptives.
Arsenic, in minute doses every hour or two, where stool is yellow
and painless and has a foul odor.
Iodine, in minute doses, where the -stool is copious and papescent,
and the patient is exhausted and weak.
DIARRHOEA 65
For Diarrhoea of infants and children the following is unequaled —
If Cornu Cervi Rasp. 3 xiij
Ex. Glycyrrhizae 3 iiss
Cort. Cinnamon Cass 3 ss
Mi and make a tea.
Sig. Teaspoonful as required.
Chamberlain's Relief —
^ Tinct. Capsici 3 x
Tinct. Camphor 3 viij
Tinct. Guaiaci 3 vi
M Sig. Ten drops on sugar as required.
^ Salol grs. xxx
Bismuth Sub. Nit. 3 i
M and divide into 10 powders.
Sig. Take one every three or four hours. This is good
treatment.
Boil a stick of Cinnamon Bark in two cupfuls of milk, and give
a teaspoonful every hour, is one of the finest remedies for children
and may be relied upon. Good also for Dysentery.
Vegetable Charcoal where the stool is very offensive.
Podophyllum, in minute doses, for white stool and the patient is
gagging, retching, and rolling the head.
Sulphuric Acid, in five drop doses in water, may be relied upon
implicitly for Diarrhoea, either for children or adults.
Magnesia Sulph., in five grain doses every three hours, is an un-
equaled remedy for acute Diarrhoea.
Thuja, in minute doses every half-hour, for 6 hours only, for early
morning Diarrhoea. Stool yellow, watery, windy, and gurgling
like water out of a bung-hole.
66 DIPHTHERIA
For chronic Diarrhoea give six grains of the Salicylate of Bis-
muth three times daily. Excellent.
DIPHTHERIA.
The most recent and possibly the most successful treatment is
by the use of Antitoxin.
METHOD OF ADMINISTRATION.
Diphtheria Antitoxic Serum is administered hypodermically. In
so doing the same care as to cleanliness must be observed here as
elsewhere in the use of the hypodermic needle. We recommend
the following convenient procedure: Place the syringe in luke-
warm water and bring to the boiling-point. To insure perfect asepsis
boil for five minutes. Cleanse the site of injection, using warm
water and soap, after which apply a 5 per cent, solution of Carbolic
Acid. The latter produces a degree of local anaesthesia which over-
comes the pain of puncture by the needle. Any part of the body
where the skin is loose and the subcutaneous connective tissue
abundant — such as the region of the hip, the abdomen, the inner
aspect of the thigh, and the interscapular region — may be selected.
Preference is to be given to the latter site, since the patient cannot
witness the injection, and is, therefore, less likely to entertain fear.
This is a precaution well taken in every instance where the hypo-
dermics are given to children, but especially so in Diphtheria, because
the heart is always more or less affected by the toxins of the disease,
and care should be used to prevent all undue excitement. In this
region the scapulae protect the site of injection against pressure
of clothing or bed covering.
Inject the serum slowly and well down into the tissues. It is well
to consume several minutes in injecting the required quantity. Do
not massage the parts. By observing these precautions the most
rapid absorption of the serum is secured.
DIPHTHERIA 67
Anti-toxin should be administered as early as possible, as twenty-
four hours lost may mean a life sacrificed.
EFFECT OF ANTI-TOXIN.
1st. Arrest of the disease.
2d. General improvement — slower pulse — fever abates.
3d. Softening of the glands.
4th. Retraction of edges of the membranes.
DOSE.
From 1,000 to 2,000 units. Repeat in from 8 to 10 hours, if
necessary.
PREVENTIVE.
From 200 to 500 units.
Repeat every 10 or 15 days.
Sulphate of Soda is the most reliable remedy. Give two grains every
hour or two in half a glass of water.
Carbolic Acid, in drop doses in water, is one of the most reliable
remedies.
Bichromate of Potash, in minute doses, where the phlegm and
secretions are ropy and tenacious.
Protoneuclein, in three grain doses every four hours, and blow the
powder into the throat and nose every hour, is good.' Or make
a solution in water and use by a spray. This may be relied upon.
Muriate Tinct. Iron is the best caustic to the ulcers in the throat.
However, it is not good practice to treat the case with a caustic
application of any kind.
68 DISINFECTANTS
Pancreatin Solution, used by an automizer, will dissolve the mem-
brane.
Trypsin used in the same way will do the same thing. These are
fine in Membranous Croup as well as Diphtheria.
Borax, three grain doses for children and 10 grain doses for adults
every three or four hours, is curative. Use no local applica-
tion with this.
IJ Pilocarpin Hydro. grs. %
Pepsin * grs. 10
Acid Mur. Dil. gtts. 2
Water 5 2£
M sig. Teaspoonful in wine every two hours and swab
the throat with Peroxide of Hydrogen.
CAUTION.
In all cases of Diphtheria, do not allow the patient to rise up
inasmuch as that the heart is always badly involved in this disease,
and many patients die from this cause when they are getting well.
DISINFECTANTS.
Sulphate of Copper in hot solutions are best to disinfect sinks and
closets and water-pipes.
Chloride of Lime is also very excellent except for its odor.
Soap-Suds is excellent if used hot.
Chlorine Water is good but not so easy to make. (See Sundries.)
Coffee is one of the most powerful disinfectants, either burned or a
solution made of it and applied.
Strong Salt Solution is one of the cheapest and best disinfectants.
Sulphur, burned is a good disinfectant, but will discolor metals.
DIURESIS— DROPSY 69
DIURESIS (Excessive Flow of Urine).
Nitrate of Uranium, in minute doses, is the one and only remedy
needed for Polyuria.
DROPSY.
Apocynum Cannabinum, in three to five drop doses of the tincture
every two or three hours, stands in the front rank for Dropsy
of all kinds.
Arsenic, in minute doses, for Dropsy due to heart disease and where
there exists a white, pale, waxy complexion, and very difficult
breathing.
Apis Melifica, in minute doses, where the patient cannot breathe
unless he sits up. Also for all Dropsies of the serous tissues.
Queen of the Meadow Tincture is a remedy to be given for Dropsy,
and with positive success. Five drop doses every two hours.
The best prescription known for general Dropsy, is the following —
I£ Fl. Ex. Apocynum Can. 5 ss
Fl. Ex. Stigmata Maydis % i
Fl. Ex. Queen of Meadow 5 i
Acetate Potash 3 iij
Sp. Juniper q. s. ad 5 v
Syr. Auranti Cort. 5 iij
M sig. Teaspoonful every two or three hours. If the
bowel is affected too severely, give less frequently.
Dropsical patients should drink large quantities of skim-milk.
See "Oedema."
Dropsy from Bright's Disease —
5 Chloroform 5 ss
Acid Benzoici gtts. xx
Potas. Acetat 3 vi
Aqua q. s. ad o Y1
^i sig. Teaspoonful in water every four hours.
70 DROWNING— DROWSINESS
Cardiac Dropsy —
5 Quinine Sulph. 3 iss
Pot. Acetatis 5 ij
Ex. Gelsemii fl. 3 i
Syrup Simple 5 *
Aqua Camphor 3 i y
M sig. Tablespoonful in water every four hours for or-
dinary cases.
DROWNING.
Never cease the struggle to revive and save a drowned person.
They have been restored after hours of labor. Stick to the task for
two or three hours.
DIRECTIONS.
Remove all clothing. Head downward for two or three minutes,
then stretch the person full length on a board or the ground. Rub
them all over with common salt. Roll them, as they lay on the
back from side to side. If possible pack them naked in Salt. Pursue
this method for hours. Success has been known after a person has
been in the water for an hour or two. It is often successful to
place the victim upon a ''teeter" and begin the motion head up,
then the feet up and the head down, so rock them until revived. The
motion should not exceed the normal respirations, which are from
16 to 20 per minute.
DROWSINESS.
Nux Vomica, in minute doses, for drowsiness hours before bed-time.
Aletris if due to womb trouble.
Belladonna if due to Brain-disease.
Phosphorus if due to Brain-fag.
DRUNKENNESS 71
Baptisia if it accompanies Typhoid Fever.
Gelsemium if from fatigue. This is the great remedy for that "Tired
Feeling." Five drop doses of the tincture every 5 hours.
Nux Muschata, in minute doses, for drowsiness, faintness, etc.
DRUNKENNESS.
Tinct. Aconite, two drop doses every hour for drunken stupor.
Hot Coffee, by the mouth and rectum, for a "dead drunk."
Carbolic Acid, two drops in plenty of water, soon restores.
Vinegar, wine-glassful every hour or two, is the great remedy of
soldiers. Four drops of Ammonia should be added to the
Vinegar.
Ammonia Chloride, ^ teaspoonful in a glass of water, is excellent.
Hot Water and plenty of it is the safest and the best of remedies.
To distinguish between a "drunk" and an Opium poisoning,
press your thumb ends firmly into the supra-orbital notch, which
is under the eye-brow near the root of the nose. If drunk, they will
yell in one minute. If Opium, they are insensible.
If stupor from Prussic Acid, the breath will smell like peach-pits.
Cannabis Indica Tincture, five to eight drops in water three or four
times daily, is the one remedy for the nervousness of drunkards.
Never give Chloral nor Morphine to drunkards.
A cure for drunkards, is the following —
First — Abstain from Liquor.
72 DYSENTERY
Second —
^ Aloes Pulv.
T7 r l u • aa sri S. XV
Jix. fel bovis exeicc b
Resin Podophyllii grs. ij
M and divide into four pills.
Sig. One every night.
Third-
ly Zinci Oxidi grs. iij
Ex. Hyoscyami q. s.
for one pill to be taken twice daily.
See "Delirium Tremens."
DYSENTERY.
There is no better remedy than Ipecacuanha, in minute doses
every hour, and accompanied with a high Enema of Fl. Ex. Gera-
nium Maculatum. in water. This is a master for Dysentery.
Oil of Peppermint, in drop doses in hot water, is an excellent home
remedy. With this inject if needed every few hours the fol-
lowing —
5 Naphthalin grs. vi
Water (hot) 5 i
M
Tinct. Baptisia, in five drop doses, is a specific for Dysentery and is
a magnificent antiseptic for the bowel. You may rely upon
this drug in any case.
Mercurius Yivus, in minute doses, for bloody stools of Dysentery
where there is much straining during and after stool.
Aloes, in minute doses, where eating or drinking aggravates the
bowels and Piles exist.
Tinct. Cantharis, five drops in a glass of water. Give a teaspoonful
every hour, where the stool is bloody and full of shreds, like
the lining of the bowels.
DYSPEPSIA 73
Croton Oil for the same, given in very minute doses.
Leptandrin, in minute doses, is the remedy for chronic forms.
Tinct. of Cinnamon, in three to five drop doses, is also good for
chronic cases.
The best is this —
I£ Nux Vomica Pulv. grs. iv
Secale Cor. Pulv. grs. xxiv
M Divide into 12 powders.
Sig. One every four hours. Children half the dose.
DYSPEPSIA.
Dyspepsia is the cry of the stomach for rest. The "rest" treat-
ment is, therefore, the best. "A hundred mastications to every
mouthful," was Gladstone's cure for Dyspepsia. This is important
as applied to all starchy foods, such as bread. In respect to meat
foods, it is not so essential as it does not require the saliva for diges-
tion. However, it is well to masticate or chew all foods thoroughly.
The best preparation to aid in the digestion of food, is the following —
IJ Tinct. Nux Vomica 3 i
Tinct. Ipecac. 3 i
Pancreatin grs. xx
Lactopeptin Elixir * vn J
M sig. Two teaspoonfuls after meals. Or the following —
1$ Nux Vomica Pulv. L^ 3 j
Ipecac Pulv.
Pancreatin 3 i
Sodii Bi-Carb. grs. xx
Lactopeptin Pulv. 3 *
M Divide into 40 powders.
Sig. One immediately after eating.
74 DYSPEPSIA
Dilute Sulphuric Acid, five drops in water an hour before. meals
prepares the stomach for work.
Sanguinaria, in minute doses before meals, is one of the best remedies
for indigestion.
Fl. Ex. Hydrastis, four drop doses before and after meals, is one
of the foremost remedies, and has few equals for Dyspepsia.
Ingluvin, five or ten grains after meals, is unequaled. This is pul-
verized chicken gizzard and very useful in nausea after eating.
Abies Nigra (Black Spruce), in minute doses, for a feeling as if a
lump like an egg were in the stomach, and a constant distressing
constriction at the pit of the stomach. This remedy is invalu-
able for total loss of appetite in the morning, but with craving
for food at noon and night.
Lycopodium, in minute doses, is one of the very best where there
is much rumbling of gas or wind in the stomach or bowel, with
loss of appetite after a mouthful or two of food has been taken.
Try this remedy for old chronic cases, and you will smile all
over.
If Carbo Veg. grs. xxx
Nux Vomica Pulv. grs. x
Sugar of Milk 5 ij
M Divide into 20 powders.
Sig. One an hour after meals. Indicated when the
stomach and bowel are full of gas, and the food dis-
tresses an hour or two after eating it. Duodenal in-
digestion.
Dyspeptics should never take beef-tea clear. It should always
be mixed with baked flour and Schlitz Malt Tonic. This tonic would
have saved many a baby's life if used properly.
A small pinch of Salt in water taken an hour before every meal,
will cure these cases when all else fails.
EAR 75
The yolk of egg boiled an hour, is a good diet for delicate
stomachs, and prepared thus, may be eaten at liberty.
Mercurius Iod., in minute doses, for Ovarian Dyspepsia.
Argentum Nitricum, in minute doses, for Dyspepsia at the Change
of Life. Both these remedies are specific.
Scutellaria Lat., is a specific for intestinal indigestion, especially of
the duodenum.
EAR.
Earache will be instantly cured by dropping into the ear five
or six drops of the Tinct. Plantago Major, as warm as can be borne,
and administer by the mouth a teaspoonful of the same. The effect
is instant.
If suppuration of the ear occurs, and pus has formed in the
inner ear, and the drum bulges, it should be punctured at onc.e and
the parts syringed out with hot water and Boracic Acid every 4
or 5 hours. After 2 days the ear should be dressed by blowing into
it a mixture of equal parts of Iodocrol and Boracic Acid once daily.
At first some pain will be experienced, but this will subside in 24
or 48 hours and recovery will be rapid.
For these cases of pus formation, Silicea, in minute doses, should
be given every hour or two for 24 hours, then no medicine whatever
for 30 days. The discharge will be increased, but soon will diminish
and finally subside altogether. This treatment for all acute or
chronic cases, is the only one needed.
Mullein Oil, dropped into the ear, is said to be specific for earache
and deafness arising from paralysis of the auditory nerve. I
cannot vouch for the value of this remedy.
Lobelia Tincture is well recommended for earache, and will do good
service where used hot in the ear.
76 EAR
Onion Juice, dropped warm into the ear, cures earache in five min-
utes. This is a quick and good old-fashioned relief for ordinary
cases.
Laudanum and Chloroform, in equal parts and put into the ear
warm, will instantly relieve, but must not be repeated often.
Black Pepper, wrapped in cotton and dipped into Sweet Oil and
put into the ear, will afford relief at once.
Fill the bowl of a new clay pipe with cotton and drop two or
three drops of Chloroform on it, then cover with a linen handker-
chief and put the stem of the pipe into the ear, and blow through
the bowl, and thus the Chloroform fumes will relieve the pain at once.
Cocaine, one drop of a 10% solution in the ear, is a quick method
of relief. Do not repeat too often.
J£ Camphorated Chloral parts 5
Glycerine parts 30
Oil Sweet Almonds parts 10
M and apply on cotton and rub the ear all around with it.
Pulsatilla, in three drop doses of the tincture, is a grand remedy
for all ear troubles, also for repeating stys. Give it twice daily.
Tinct. Gelsemium, in five drop doses once daily, will cure ringing
in the ears. Dilute it with water and put a few drops into the ear.
Quinine, in minute doses, cures roaring in the ears.
Graphites, in very minute doses, cures honey-like discharges from,
or behind, the ear and on the scalp. Make a salve of the same
and apply once daily.
Foreign bodies in the ear may be removed with a loop of very
fine steel or silver wire.
Maggots in the ear will come out at once by using the fumes
of Chloroform,
ECZEMA 11
Agaricus, in minute doses, cures red swollen ears as it does the
fingers and hands that look as though they had been frozen.
Wax is quickly removed from the ear by the use of Hydrogen
Peroxide. It dissolves the wax at once.
ECZEMA.
Rhus Toxicodendron will cure more cases and varieties of skin dis-
ease than any other one drug.
It applies successfully to all forms of Eczema and kindred skin
affections. It must be given in small continued doses for several
months.
The most successful treatment for Eczema and one that has
done wonders as a curative method is the following —
Apply twice daily the ordinary "Black Wash" (Calomel and Lime
water). After it has thoroughly dried then apply the following oint-
ment—
^ Lanolin g ij
Iodol grs. xx
Resorcin Pulv. grs. x
Acid Salicylic grs. xx
Oil Tar . . 3 i
Keolin § iss
M Apply lightly 2 or 3 times daily.
At the same time give by the mouth —
I£ Tincture Rhus Tox. 3 i
Aqua dest § vi
M sig. Teaspoonful 3 or 4 times daily.
If improvement is not satisfactory in one month give Ichthyol
6 grains in capsules after each meal and continue the Rhus Tox.
If after one month the case has not yielded cease all the above
except the ointment and give 15 drops of Arsenaiuro in water after
ECZEMA
meals (children half the dose). After two or three ounces are used
the case will be welL
In old and aggravated forms of Eczema groups and crops of
furuncles and small, sore and incomplete boils are frequently met
with. In all such cases one of the following remedies should be
given :
Arnica Tincture drop doses before meals for all tendency to boils
and crops of furuncles, especially when they are very tender
and sore to the touch.
Hepar Sulphuris, in minute doses, twice daily if the boils present
pus points and tendency to suppuration.
Sulphuric Acid Dilute, 5 drops i« plenty- of water before meals if
the boils are large and frequent repetitions occur.
In addition to the above treatment Epsom Salts 2 teaspoonfuls in
cold water before breakfast 3 times each week must be given.
If at any time after the eruptions have disappeared there remains
a violent and persistent itching give 2 drops of a 1% solution of
Strychnine an hour after each meal.
The above treatment will cure even- and any case of Eczema.
The following suggestion may be serviceable :
Attend carefully to the diet, avoiding all greases and fatty food
and give plenty- of old-fashioned buttermilk to drink.
near a specific as is known for Eczema of the ordinary
type. It must be applied lightly two or three times daily, and
is best when covered with a linen cloth.
Ichthyol, 10% in Lanolin, and applied twice daily: take 6 drops of
the Ichthyol in capsules after meals. This, persisted in. will do
wonders for some can
Lycopersicum, applied, is the remedy where boils accompany Eczema.
With it should be administered either Silicea or Hepar Sulphur,
in minute doses, 1 dose every two or three days.
ECZEMA 79
"Black Wash" (Calomel and Lime Water) is a very good application
or wash before applying Resinol or Ichthyol. Let it dry first.
Graphites, in minute doses, for Eczema of the ears where a honey-like
fluid escapes. Also of the scalp. Apply a paste made of the
same. This is absolutely a specific for this form of Eczema.
Arsenic, in minute doses three or four times daily, is a good skin
medicine for burning Eczema, having a scaly, branlike eruption.
In Psoriasis it is specific.
Arsenauro, 10 to 15 drop doses in plenty of water, (children 5 to
8 drops,) after each meal. Two or three ounces of it will work
wonders where everything else has failed. It is specific in all
forms of Eczema, and may be relied upon.
For a dry Eczema of the Scalp the following cures —
1$ Acid Salicylici grs. xx
Oil Lavendulae 3 iijss
Oil Citronellae 5 ss
Oil Pini. Sylvest. I ij
Oil Recini % iss
M and apply a few drops to the scalp and rub gently.
UNIVERSAL ECZEMA.
Bury the patient into a Bran Mesh every day for an hour or two ;
then wash with Tepid Water gently; and when dry, anoint with the
following:
^ Acid Salicylici grs. xxx
Lanolin § ij
M and apply gently all over the body. This treatment has
afforded me much gratification, after all others failed.
It may be relied upon. Resinol is preferable, except
for the expense. It is well to give the Arsenauro in
this case. To children the dose must not be more than
five to eight drops after meals.
SO EMETICS— EMISSIONS
5 Hydrarg. Ammo. Chlor. grs. v
Balsam Peru grs. xij
Lanolin § i
M and apply for Barber's Itch and Impetigo. Specific.
See "Skin."
EMETICS.
Apomorphia, i grain on the back of the tongue, will cause vomiting
in five minutes. Apomorphia that is green is spoiled and must not
be used.
Tinct. Ipecac, a teaspoonful causes vomiting in a minute.
Tartar Emetic, in two-grain doses, the work is done in ten minutes.
Warm Water (not hot), with a teaspoonful of Mustard, acts in five
minutes.
Salt Water is safer and is more prompt as an Emetic.
Sulphate of Zinc, 15 to 20 grains, does the work well.
Push the finger down the throat.
EMISSIONS (Nightly).
(See Spermatorrhea.)
If night Emissions occur oftener than once in a week or ten days,
they are injurious. Otherwise, they are an evidence of virility, unless
the patient feels exhausted after them.
B Nux Vomica Pulv. grs. x
Secale Cor. Pulv. - 3 iss
M Divide into 20 powders.
Sig. One after each meal. Apply over the hips and
back Camphor Water, cold, every night and morning.
Make Camphor Water by putting into a quart of water
a tablespoonful of Spirits of Camphor.
EPILEPSY 81
Rub the parts well with a coarse towel.
If the heart is affected, give 1-30 grain of Digitalis three times
daily. Gelsemium, 1-20 grain three or four times daily.
As a tonic, China Tincture, four drops before meals, is excellent?
where there is loss of vital fluid, either blood or semen.
Drink Schlitz Malt Extract after meals and on going to bed. It is
a sexual sedate.
Gelsemiin, -J grain, and Lupulin, 3 grains, mixed, on going to
bed, cures every case of night emissions.
EPILEPSY.
Epilepsy is a sudden loss of consciousness with convulsive move-
ments of the body, and invariably frothing at the mouth, and a chew-
ing, blowing motion of the mouth. You may tell when an Epileptic
fit is about to occur by the rapid rise of the pulse. This is true
whether acute or chronic. These fits may be due to some bowel,
stomach, or genital irritation. Therefore, they will be cured by
removing the cause. They may be due also to old injuries of the
bone of the foreleg, the tibia especially.
If due to stomach disease, cure it by proper remedies found in
this book. So also if due to bowel disease. If from seat or other
worms, destroy them.
If due to a long prepuce in a boy, circumcise him. If in a girl,
remove the clitoris. These are frequent causes in young life.
All Epileptics should cat little and often.
If from injuries to the skull or scalp, remove the depressing bone
or scar.
Atropine, a 30% trituration in sugar of milk, and give one or two
grains every 10 or 12 hours, will cure most cases that are due
to injuries of the brain.
Xux Vomica, 1-20 grain twice daily, will cure many cases.
82
ERYSIPELAS
Melilotus Tincture, given in drop doses every five minutes during
an attack, will relieve in a few moments. Continue in six or
seven-drop doses before and after meals. This will prevent all
fits of this kind. Absolutely reliable.
If a patient suffering from Epilepsy will take 1-50 grain of the
Nitrate of Silver, after morning and evening meals, the fit will
never occur.
Passiflora Incarnata Tincture, a teaspoonful three times daily, will
prevent and cure Epilepsy. Double the dose at bedtime.
Fluid Extract of Horse Nettle, in ordinary doses, is proven effica-
cious for Epilepsy.
ERYSIPELAS.
Belladonna, in two drop doses of the tincture every two hours, for
ordinary cases where the surface is very red and inflamed and
the eyes are affected. Apply also a 2% solution twice daily.
Rhus Tox., in minute doses, cures the vesicular forms. It is specific.
Apis Melifica, where the pain is of a stinging nature, and the erup-
tions are papular. In frequent minute doses.
Arsenic, in minute doses every two hours, cures the phlegmonous
cases. Very reliable.
Baptisia, in a lotion of 1 part to 10 parts of water, is the only external
dressing needed. Apply on cotton cloths and renew every
half hour. This application for all forms of the disease is the
proper one.
Cantharis, five drops of the tincture in half a glass of water, given in
teaspoonful doses every hour, is a specific remedy.
EYES 83
Erysipelas is a constitutional disease, and may become chronic.
Hence, Iron, in the most agreeable form, should accompany all
medications.
Give Metallic Iron, in minute doses, twice daily.
Never apply poultices to Erysipelatous eruptions. They aggra-
vate the trouble.
EYES.
Atropia, one grain in an ounce of water and one or two drops in the
eye, will quickly reduce ordinary acute inflammation.
Cocaine, 5% solution dropped in the eye every five minutes, until
three doses are given, will relieve all pain in the eye, and should
be employed for the comfort of the patient, but not too con-
tinuously.
Boracic Acid, 10% solution in warm water, is a very excellent eye
lotion.
Yellow Oxide of Mercury is one of the foremost remedies for granu-
lation of the lids, prepared thus —
3J Hydrarg. ox. Flavus grs. ij
Vaseline § i
M sig. Put a piece the size of a shot in the eye. There
will be no pain from its use. Repeat three times daily.
If the granulations are of long standing and large, take
a piece of Copperas and smoothen the surface or the
edge, and then rub lightly over the granulations once
daily. This is a wonderful absorbent and stimulant.
Cabbage or Potato Poultices are very excellent applications for gran-
ulated eye-lids. In fact, to all inflammations of the eye or its lids.
Calomel, finely pulverized and dusted in the eye with a camel-hair
brush every day, is unequaled for scars and cicatrices in the
eye, due to old inflammations.
84 ENEMAS
Iodoform, finely pulverized, is one of the soothing stimulants in
scars and granulations.
Euphrasia is the grand specific for eye diseases. Dose of the tinc-
ture one to five drops in water four or five times daily. Make
a lotion of it with water, 10 drops to an ounce, and put into
the eye frequently. Euphrasia cures twitching eye-lids or
squinting. Specific.
Extract of Witch Hazel, diluted with water one part to ten, and put
into the eye, is a very soothing dressing and cure for inflamma-
tions, acute or chronic.
Nitrate of Silver, in a 2% solution in water, and one drop in the eye,
is an excellent stimulant in all purulent and chronic forms.
So also the following —
5 Zinc Sulph. grs. ij
Morphia Sulph. grs. ij
Water § i
M sig. Two drops in the eye four times daily.
Apis Melifica, in minute doses, for dropsy of the eye-lids.
It is said that the juice of Cineraria Maritima will cure Cataracts.
One or two drops in the eye night and morning, or oftener if
desired. When first dropped into the eye a little burning occurs,
which subsides in a moment. This drug never produces harm, but
is perfectly safe. It acts directly, and only upon the opaque matter
of the lens or its capsule, causing its dissolution and subsequent
absorption. In all cases of Cataract of the eye the Succus Cineraria
Maritima should be employed before surgical methods are resorted
to. It has cured many cases.
ENEMAS.
In severe Constipation, as also after operations affecting the
rectum, Castor Oil in three or four ounces, injected in the rectum
at bedtime, will perfectly dissolve the feces, and produce an easy
movement of the bowel.
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Glycerine, either pure or half in water, injected into the rectum, will
cause the bowel to move in two minutes, but must not be
employed after any operation affecting any portion of the bowel.
It produces too much straining and smarting.
Hot Salt Water is a very excellent Enema for cleansing the bowel
and destroying all seat worms.
Camphor Spirits, 12 drops to the pint of water, is an excellent
Enema, and not only heals, but soothes the bowel.
Pure Coal Oil may be used in the bowel, high above the flexures,
in large quantities, for the removal of obstructions and impac-
tions.
Bovinine is one of the best preparations, when used with Hydrogen
Peroxide, for Constipation and Impaction of the bowel. Use
them as follows : Introduce a rectal cathater above the sigmoid
flexure; then inject any quantity of warm Bovinine; follow this
with an ounce of Hydrogen Peroxide mixed one-half with
water. This not only dissolves the Impaction at once, but the
liberation of the gas will smoothen out the bowel without any
pain.
Hot Air is a good Enema for torsion or twisting of the bowel.
Fluid Hydrastis (non-alcoholic), one ounce and water ten ounces,
is a very excellent Enema for ulceration.
Fl. Ex. of Rhatany, two tablespoonfuls to the pint of tepid water,
is the proper Enema for Proctitis.
Fl Ex. Pinus Canadensis, one tablesponful to the pint of water;
is unequaled for inflamed or ulcerated rectum.
86 NUTRITIVE ENEMAS— FAINTING
NUTRITIVE ENEMAS.
IJ Cod-liver Oil 5 ounces
Yolk of one egg
Lime water 1 ounces
M This is sufficient for four or five Enemas, to be given
during the day.
5 Cod-liver Oil 5 ounces
Yolk of one egg
Chloride of Sodium 40 grains
Water 10 ounces
M This is sufficient for four or five Enemas during the
day.
Enemas of almost any kind of food may be employed in the
rectum when they cannot be administered by the mouth, and with
nearly as good results, in respect to nourishment, as if they were
taken into the stomach. Eggs and warm milk, bouillon, bovinine,
cod-liver oil, soups, gruels made from peas, barley, oats and wheat,
rice, and starches of all kinds. In fact, rectal alimentation may
include almost any ordinary article of diet, but must always be
administered warm.
FAINTING.
.Lay the patient upon the back in a perfectly horizontal position,
and loosen all clothing and give plenty of air.
If conscious, give by mouth two drops of ordinary Ammonia
in water, or give Whiskey in half-ounce doses in water. It absorbs
ten times more quickly by giving it in water.
Smell Ammonia, or Vinegar, or Amyl, or Musk.
Give Nitro-Glycerine, 1-50 grain, or one drop of the 1-100% solution.
Give Strychnine, 1-50 grain, or two drops of a 1% solution. These
last two may be given hypodermically.
FEET— FELON 87
Digitalis, six drops of the tincture, if from heart trouble, or either
of the two foregoing remedies.
FEET.
For cold feet give lime. Preferably Calcarea Carb., or Silicea,
both in minute doses. The patient must wear cotton stockings
next the feet and woolen over them.
For hot feet give Sulphur, in minute doses, one powder daily; is
specific.
For offensive sweating, Silicea, given in minute doses, is specific.
Chromic Acid, 1 part in 9 parts of water, and apply nights after a
foot-bath. Specific.
Apply Chloral Water morning and evening, or the following —
3 Chloral Hydrate 5 i
Water 5 xvi
M sig. Bathe feet in tepid water, not hot, and then
apply the above. After the feet are dry apply freely
Bismuth Sub. Nit. This is absolutely a cure.
The following is good —
B Per Chloride Iron 5 iij
Glycerine 5 ss
Oil Bergamont 3 ij
M and apply with a hair brush. This is unequaled for
sore, tender feet.
FELON.
Apply freely and frequently Collodion. This will abort, if applied
early.
Carbolic Acid (pure). Dip the finger into it for one minute. Sure
relief.
Dip the parts affected into lye; it will abort Felons.
88 FEVERS
The best treatment for a Felon that is 48 hours old is to put
the lance clear into the bone. First apply pure Carbolic Acid to
make the lancing painless.
FEVERS.
Fever and rise of temperature are nature's method of eliminating
disease. Almost every known disease is accompanied by fever. It
does not become necessary to pay great attention to a rising tem-
perature, unless it becomes dangerously high or continues above
normal for several days. The normal temperature of the body is
98 6-10°. Dangerously high, or exhausting temperature, or "fever,"
as it is commonly termed, is from 102° to 107°. Rarely does the
patient survive so high a fever condition as the latter.
In diseased conditions it is not good to reduce the temperature
rapidly to the normal. Fever is only one of the guiding symptoms
upon which treatment is to be based. There are a few drugs which
reduce fever rapidly.
TREATMENT.
Tinct. Aconite, in drop doses every hour or two, for a fever with
dry, hot skin and a bounding full pulse.
Yeratrum Yiride Tincture, given in drop doses every hour or two,
is a twin sister of Aconite. It acts more quickly than Aconite,
and is not so liable to produce the severe sweating.
Tinct. Belladonna, in two drop doses every one or two hours, where
there is severe, throbbing headache, and red or tearful eyes,
which cannot bear light or bright objects; even water is
unpleasant to the sight.
Bryonia Alb., in one drop dose of the tincture every hour, is an
antiseptic, and is applied for moderate fever with headache made
worse by motion. Aggravation by motion is its chief guiding
symptom.
FEVERS 89
Baptisia Tincture, in one to three drop doses, is a specific for all
fevers, especially the severe type, such as Typhoid and its
delirium. Nothing else is needed. It applies to all toxic fevers.
Phosphate of Iron, in minute doses, is the master remedy for the
acute forms of fever, or any congestion and inflammation. This
is a remedy of unusual value, and can be relied upon in every
case. Neither the doctor nor the home should be without this
remedy. It covers more ills of life than any other drug. It
must be given in minute doses for all cases, every hour or two.
Gelsemium Tincture, in two or five drop doses, is a fever medicine.
There is no thirst in the fever of this drug. It applies especially
to Cerebro-Spinal Fevers. This drug covers and cures such
cases as does Cicuta Virosa (given the same way), except that
there is more delirium in the fever of Cicuta than Gelsemium,
and the patient whirls the arms and legs about, and the sight
of one eye is affected. It applies to Meningitis, and will cure
most of such cases.
Hellebore Nig. also is of the same type, and applies to the fevers
of brain disease. In this drug we have suppression of urine,
and rolling of the head and evidence of dropsical brain trouble.
In Gelsemium the patient wishes to lie perfectly still and quiet.
Camphor, in minute doses, applies to fevers of the brain wnere the
body of the patient is cold. Indeed, there may be chills. This
is a great remedy for Cholera and Yellow Fever.
In Gastric Fever the remedy is Ipecac, in minute doses, fre-
quently repeated. Also China Ars., in minute doses, is one of the
leading remedies for Gastric Fever (Stomach Fever).
Hectic Fever — Baptisia Tincture, in three drop doses every three
hours, will destroy the poisons of Hectic. It is specific. This
is the great remedy for Blood Poisoning from decayed vege-
table or animal matter. Given in alternation with Arsenic, in
minute doses, it redeems and saves any case.
90 FEVERS
Intermittent Fever — See "Ague."
Puerperal Fever — Veratrum Viride, as above indicated, is the first
remedy. With this give Baptisia and Arsenic, in frequent doses,
in rotation.
Vaginal and Uterine treatment must accompany all cases of this'
kind. Antiseptic lotions, of which the following is the best —
5 Baptisia tincture § ij
Hot water i
M Intra-Uterine douche every three hours, day and night,
for several days.
Another, although not so good as the foregoing, is —
5 Hydrarg. Bi-Chlor. grs. 7£
Hot water ij
M Intra-Uterine lotion every three or four hours.
I depend upon Baptisia and China Arsenate, in minute doses
every hour alternately, to cure every case in connection with the
lotion of Baptisia.
Spotted Fever (Typhus) — Lachesis, in minute doses every hour, will
cure. I usually give the following with it —
1} Alcohol 5 ss
Aqua o i ss
M sig. One or two tablespoonfuls every 15 or 20 minutes
for 12 hours continuously. This is elegant.
Typhoid Fever — Treat every case as follows —
1$ Tinct. Veratrum Vir. 3 iss
Aqua Dest. add 5 ivss
M sig. Teaspoonful every two hours throughout the
case, or until the conditions are changed, requiring its
discontinuance. At the same time give the following—
FISTULA— FRECKLES 91
^ Tinct. Baptisia 5 iss
Aqua Dest. add § iv
M sig. A teaspoonful, throughout the case, every three
hours, or until the patient puts his clothes on.
Also — Give a daily Alcohol rub. Give plenty of cold water
which has first been boiled. Bury all secretions. You may risk
your all upon success in any case if called to its treatment.
Glycerine will stop the thirst in fever patients by putting a drop
or two over the tongue.
Diagnosis of Typhoid Fever — The temperature of the first seven
days will be absolutely decisive. If it falls lower than any previous
day's record, the case is not Typhoid. See "Scarlet Fever."
FISTULA.
A "complete" Fistula may be cured by passing an elastic through
it, and fastening the ends with a perforated shot, tightening the
elastic every second day.
An "incomplete" Fistula may be made complete by the trocar
or probe or knife, and then treated as above ; or, better still, use the
following —
1$ Lactopeptin 3 i
Hot water 3 ss
M sig. Inject twice daily, or pack the Fistula with the
dry Lactopeptin every day. Wash the powder out at
the end of 24 hours, and repack.
Many of these cases are Tuberculous. If so, an appropriate rem-
edy must be administered.
Packing a Fistula with Oakum is highly recommended.
FRECKLES.
These are accompaniments of fair-skinned persons only, and are
due to thickened sweat at the openings of the sweat glands. It dries
on the face like Bran.
92 FOOD
Powdered Nitre (Saltpeter), applied with a wet cloth, removes them
at once.
5 Lemon juice g i
Borax Pulv. 3 S s
Granulated sugar 5 i
M sig. Put into a two-ounce bottle. Shake every day
for a week; then apply a little to the freckles. Certain.
]? Sulpho. Carbolate Zinc 3 i
Glycerine g iij
Rose Water * iij
Perfumed Alcohol 3 ij
M and apply night and morning, rubbing for an hour,
and then wash in cold water.
5 Lactic Acid 3 ss
Glycerine 5 ss
M and apply night and morning. This is a good one.
See "Complexion."
FOOD.
To Make Junket, or Curds and Whey.
A delicious delicacy for invalids, convalescents and dyspeptics:
Junket. — Take one-half pint of fresh milk, heated lukewarm —
not warmer than can be agreeably borne by the mouth (about
115° F.); add one teaspoonful of Fairchild's Essence of Pepsine, and
stir just enough to mix. Pour into custard cups, let it stand until
firmly curdled; may be served plain or with sugar and grated nutmeg.
An egg, beaten to a froth and sweetened with two teaspoonfuls
of sugar, may previously be added to the half-pint of milk, forming'
a highly nutritious and smooth jelly. The essence will curdle milk
with eggs as readily as plain milk.
FOOD 93
Whey. — Curd warm milk with the Essence of Pepsme, as above
directed; then beat up with a fork until the curd is finely divided;
now strain, and the Whey is ready for use.
Whey is a highly nutritious fluid food, peculiarly useful in many
ailments, and always valuable as a means of variety in diet for the
sick. It is frequently resorted to as a food for infants to tide over
periods of indigestion, summer complaints, etc.
For Neurosis of the stomach —
5 Fresh milk qt. 1
Water qt. i
Sodii Bi-Carb. grs. 15
M and heat to 125° or 140° F., and add Pancreatic Liquor,
four drachms to each quart of the preparation. Keep
it warm for two or three hours, and when it becomes
i bitter remove and let it cool.
Sig. Use it while fresh, and at liberty.
BABY'S FOOD.
Sugar of Milk one ounce, in one-half pint of water, and boil 15
minutes; then add one-half pint of fresh milk and boil again; give
from the bottle moderately warm. Obstinate cases of Dysentery
have been cured by this diet.
For the sake of a change, if the bowels are loose, crack a tea-
spoonful of barley in a coffee mill, boil it 15 minutes in one-half
pint of water with a little salt, skim it, and for a young child add
half as much cow's milk as there is barley water, sweeten and give
warm from the bottle. If the bowels are bound, use oatmeal instead
of barley.
Cream, skimmed off the milk two hours after milking in the
morning, dilute one-half or three-quarters with boiling water, and
sweetened slightly with loaf sugar, often agrees with a child, and
stays on the stomach when milk will not.
94 FOOD
To a quart of milk just boiling add a heaping teaspoonful of
corn starch, and as much white sugar; continue the boiling until
it thickens (no longer), and feed warm. This will make the baby fat.
Pure, unfermented grape juice (preserved without boiling, and
without any chemical or other substance to prevent fermentation),
is the food par excellence for sick children, as well as for adult
invalids. A child four years old took H pints a day during Scarlet
Fever.
Squeeze the juice from raw, lean meat with a lemon squeezer,
salt it slightly and dilute it a little with warm water, put it into the
nursing bottle, and give four times daily as much as seems tolerated
by the stomach. This cures Summer Complaint.
Permitting the baby to suck a raw oyster, or the raw, soft part
of dried beef, held in the nurse's fingers, often proves curative in
cases of Bowel Complaint.
When the baby is loosing flesh, vomits food, and has sour stools,
a grain or two of Sugar of Milk, placed dry upon the tongue every
three or four hours, often corrects the trouble.
When children are brought up by hand, the substitution of Milk
Sugar for loaf sugar will frequently obviate sour vomiting and acid
diarrhoea.
Rice, carefully cleaned and nicely browned in an oven, a tea-
spoonful in a pint of water, allowed to stand and simmer on the
stove for an hour or more, then the watery portion drained off and
cooled to blood heat, and slightly sweetened and colored, if you
choose, with a teaspoonful of milk, will agree with the most delicate
stomach, and is almost as nourishing as milk.
Take two tablespoonfuls of unbolted wheat flour, and wet it
with cold water to the thickness of cream; then add this to two
quarts of boiling water, and boil thirty minutes; strain and serve.
This agrees with children reared upon the bottle oftentimes when
cow's milk does not. It cures Cholera Infantum.
If child's stools are sour, put a tablespoonful of Lime Water
with the milk in its nursing bottle. If the stools are bloody, boil
a piece of mutton suet in the milk, and season with a little salt.
FROST BITE— GALL STONE 95
Diabetic persons must abstain from foods containing starch and
sugar; partake only of meats, green vegetables and skim milk.
Persons afflicted with Gravel, Gout, or Bright's Disease, must
not partake of meats, eggs, or new milk. Their food must be
mainly farinaceous — bread, cakes, green vegetables and skim-milk.
In Consumption or other wasting diseases, give Liquid Pep-
tonoids.
FROST BITE.
Place the patient in a cool room and wrap the frozen part in
snow, thus drawing out the frost slowly but surely. Then paint the
parts with Oil of Peppermint twice daily.
If sloughing occurs, apply "Tar Plaster" once or twice daily, and
administer Agaricus, in minute doses, frequently repeated.
GALL STONE.
Chloroform, four drops on sugar every three or four hours, will
dissolve Gall-stone.
Chionia, in teaspoonful doses every four or five hours, is specific.
Dioscorea, in two drop doses every 10 or 15 minutes, soon relieves
Gall-stone colic.
China Tincture, in two drop doses three times daily, will prevent
their formation. This is absolutely specific.
If the pain is too severe to endure, either give a violent emetic
such as Ipecac, tincture, teaspoonful doses, or Apomorphia, J grain
on the tongue ; or else Morphia Sulph, i to ^ grain, hypodermically,
according to age and severity of the pain.
Drink a cupful of Olive Oil every day.
96 GASTRALGIA— GLANDS
GASTRALGIA.
(Neuralgia of the Stomach.)
I£ Morphia Hydro Chlorate grs. 1J
Aqua Lauro. Cerasi gtts. 75
M sig. One drop on sugar before each meal. After one
month of this treatment, replace it by —
3J Ferri Arseniat grs. 1J
Ex. Valeriana grs. 75
M ft. pill 50.
Sig. One before meals. This is magic treatment.
Fl. Ex. Collinsonia, 10 to 15 drops every three to five hours, is a
master of the disease.
Argentum Nitricum, in minute doses, for painful and gaseous con-
ditions of the stomach.
Chloroform, six to ten drops on sugar, relieves instantly, but does
not cure.
■•
Tinct. Plantago Major, one teaspoonful relieves the pain "while
you wait/'
Tinct. Gelsemium, five drops in hot water repeated every four hours,
is immediate in its action and cures. Mix equal parts of this
drug with Kalmia Tinct. and give 10 drops in hot water, and you
have a specific.
GLANDS.
Belladonna, in drop doses of the tincture every hour, for acute
swelling of the glands, especially those of the throat where there
is severe, throbbing pain, and a slimy, red, smooth appearance.
Make also a salve, as follows, of the Solid Ex. of Belladonna,
and apply to all external glandular swellings —
GLANDS 97
I£ Solid Ex. Belladonna grs. xv
Lanolin 5 ij
M and apply to gland.
Common Clay, made into a soft paste with water, is just as good
as Belladonna for external use only.
The one drug that will do more and quicker work in all glandular
swellings, acute or chronic (especially chronic), than all others com-
bined, is Phytolacca Decandra tincture. For acute swelling give
two drops every hour or two, and in chronic swelling of the glands
give one drop three or four times daily. Make a paste and apply
as follows:
.I£ Solid Ex. Phytolacca grs. xxx
Lanolin § ij
M and apply twice daily. For swelling of the breasts this
has no equal. Phytolacca is the great gland remedy.
Iodine should never be applied pure to swollen glands, acute or
chronic, as it invariably increases the trouble. If used (and if
is a good remedy), it must be given in minute doses by the
mouth, as follows —
^ Tinct. Iodine gtts. xx
Water or Syr. Sarsaparilla % iv
^ sig. Teaspoonful three times daily.
Mercurius Iodide must also be used carefully in its administration
for glandular swelling.
K Mercurius Iodide grs. i
Sugar Milk 5 i
M- Triturate and divide into 50 powders.
Sig. One powder every six hours.
98 GOITRE
Iodide of Potash, for chronic swelling of the glands, may be used
in three to five grains after each meal. The best treatment
where Mercury and Potash are to be given for glandular dis-
eases, ordinary or Syphilitic, is the following —
I> Hydrarg. Biniodi grs. ij
Potass. Iodide 3 iss
Syr. Simple and Aqua aa 5 iij
^ sig. Two teaspoonfuls in plenty of water after meals.
Silicea or Hepar Sulphur, in minute doses, must be employed where
the glands suppurate, and a poultice of Carrots applied.
For enlarged glands the following is an excellent application —
IJ Tinct. Iodine o ss
Olive Oil 5 ss
Tinct. Camphor .5 i
M and apply. With this give Iodide of Lime in minute
doses even* three or four hours.
GOITRE (Thick Neck).
Thyroidene (Dessicated Thyroid Gland) is one of the specifics for
Goitre or Bronchocele or Derbyshire Xeck, as it is commonly
called. It must not be given to patients who have heart disease
of any kind, or are sexually weak, as it will cause impotency.
Otherwise, give it in five grain doses one to three times daily.
It works wonders.
Ordinary cases of Goitre may be cured by giving pulverized egg-
shell, half a teaspoonful on bread three times daily. At the same
time give the same quantity of burnt Sponge (Place a sponge on
a stove shovel and burn it until it is reduced to ashes). This is one
of the most effectual, as well as safest cures for ordinary Goitre.
GOITRE 99
IJ Tinct. Phytolacca gtts. xxv
Water § iv
M sig. Teaspoonful several times daily will cure almost
any case in two months. This is a specific.
Here are three excellent prescriptions for exophthalmic Goitre,
in which, of course, the heart and eyes are always affected —
1st. 5 Fl. Ex. Apocynum Can. 5 iij
Fl. Ex. Phytolacca 5 ij
Liquor Pot. Arsenitis 5 iss
Aqua add 5 v
M sig. Teaspoonful five times daily.
2nd. ^ Iodine (Crystals) grs. v
Iod. Pot 3 ij
Syr. Sarsap. 5 iv
Aqua 5 ij
M sig. Teaspoonful after meals.
3rd. IJ Tinct. Iodine 5 iij
Tinct. Belladonna 5 iij
Port Wine 5 vij
M sig. Teaspoonful after meals.
To the first may be added, if desirable, Tinct. Digitalis and Tinct.
Convalaria, of each 1J drachms.
Note: In all cases of Goitre there should be applied a paste of the
following —
IJ Solid Ex. Phytolacca grs. xxx
Lanolin 5 ij
M sig. Apply and rub well into the neck.
The Iodide of Lime, in minute doses three times daily, will cure
Goitre.
100 GONORRHEA
GONORRHEA.
Never get the disease, is the best treatment and costs less in
pain and money.
Preventive treatment —
5 Argentum Nitricum grs. ij
Aqua Dest. § i
M sig. Pass urine after "the act," and then inject two
teaspoonfuls of the solution, retaining for one minute.
This is absolutely a preventive of Clap, no matter how
wayward the victim may be. The syringe must be
cone-pointed and not sharp-pointed.
Peroxide of Hydrogen, diluted J with water and injected, will accom-
plish the same result, but must not be retained. It will not
stain the clothing. Wash the parts externally with this solution.
Cures for Gonorrhea (Clap —
If Tinct. Gelsemium § ss
Aqua dest. add § vi
^ sig. Teaspoonful every four or five hours. This is
absolutely a sure cure for acute clap. No injections
should be used in any case of Clap, unless for cleansing,
such as a solution of Bi-Carbonate of Soda.
Do not employ astringents nor caustics; they produce strictures,
and drive the disease into glands.
Wash the parts externally several times daily in cold water, and
give free vent to the discharges. If dressings are used, they must be
moist, cold, and changed every two or three hours.
Here is one of the most valuable prescriptions for the average
case of acute Gonorrhea —
GOUT 101
9
Sodii Bromidi
5 iss
Potas. Acetalis
3ij
Fl. Ex. Gelsemium
o iss
Syr. Sarsap.
oi
Aquae Camphorae add.
5iv
M sig. Tablespoonful in a glass of water every four or five
hours.
Chronic Clap —
1^ Naphthalin Pulv. 3 i
Sugar Milk § ss
M Triturate thoroughly and take five grains every three
or four hours. This is all that is needed.
For chronic Urethral discharge, 10 drop doses of Donovan's
Solution of the Iodide of Arsenic, will be found a valuable remedy.
Give it after meals.
Injections of Sterilized Blood Serum or Bovinine three times
daily will cure any case of Clap in one week. All prescriptions herein
given apply to male and female alike. Blood Serum must be care-
fully filtered and then add 0.05 per cent, of trikresol, which preserves
it perfectly from putrefaction.
GOUT.
(See Rheumatism.)
Thialion, in ordinary doses, is one of the nearest specifics for Gout.
Colchicum, in ordinary doses, is excellent.
Hot Water, a tumblerful every 20 minutes for three hours, after
breakfast every day, not only cures, but prevents Gout.
Ichthyol, in six grain capsules after meals, and apply the same to
the joints, cures like magic. Avoid all stimulants and meats.
102 GRAVEL— GYNAECOLOGY
One of the most effectual treatments for Gout, is the following —
I> Lactic Acid, 15% solution in Glycerine. Give six to
eight drops in water three times daily for 20 days.
Then rest 10 days and repeat the medicine. Continue
this for six months.
An application for Gout. It relieves the pain —
T$ Potas. Iod. 5 iv
Soap Liniment o iv
Oil Cajuput 5 ss
Oil Caraway 5 ss
Alcohol 5 vij
M Apply on lint or cotton and cover with a protective.
GRAVEL
See "Kidney and Bladder."
GRIEF.
Ignatia, in drop doses of the tincture, for suppressed grief from any
cause, especially disappointed love. Also for bad effects of
Tobacco.
GUMS.
Bleeding that occurs after the extraction of teeth may be in-
stantly stopped by applying Chloroform, or a solution of Iron, or
equal parts of a saturated solution of Tannic Acid and Antipyrine,
or Plaster Paris forced into the openings in the gums and retained
after it has hardened.
See "Hemorrhage" and "Teeth."
GYNAECOLOGY.
This comes from two Greek terms. Gynae — a woman, and Logus
— a word or writing. It is the duty of every physician to make a
thorough and careful inspection of the entire genitalia of every
DYSMENORRHEA 103
patient, showing either local or reflex pathological conditions. The
best persuasive power of the physician must be employed with his
patient to being about this end. While it is imperative upon him
at all times to recognize the modesty and sensitiveness of his patient,
at the same time he must insist upon thorough observation and
palpation of the genitalium, if he is to be helpful to her. It will be
impracticable in a work of this kind to outline and discuss at great
length the various diseases affecting the genital pharaphinalia of
woman, but there are a few thoughts from experience worthy of
consideration.
The size and measurements of the body of woman do not always
correspond with the size and measurements of her genital organs.
The tall, slim, well-formed woman frequently possesses the narrowest
and smallest genital organ, and bears her children with greater diffi-
culty than the woman of small body and vice versa. So that, taking
into consideration these things, a physician will be guided some-
what by them. The minor labia of the vagina should normally be
thin and retiring in their relation to other parts of the vagina. If
the reverse be found to exist, the thought suggested will be: Are
these adhesions or enlargements due to irritations. So also, if the
hood of the clitoris be adhered and elongated, the same question will
arise. In both these abnormal conditions serious reflex phenomena
will arise to the destruction of health. And so w T ith all the external
genitals, as well as the womb and ovaries. The diseases most com-
monly found are:
Irregularities in the Menstrual function, such as pain of various
kinds — delays — too frequent menstruation — too profuse — abnormal
colors, and qualities of the fluid — menstrual headache — uterine colic
— acute vaginitis, and vaginismus.
DYSMENORRHEA.
(Painful Monthly.)
Dysmenorrhea may be of three forms. First, obstructive.
Second, neuralgic. Third, membranous. The pain arises from
104 DYSMENORRHEA
irregular contractions. The contraction of the cervical canal causes
clots to form and these being discharged, bring on periodical pain.
The treatment of the different forms of Dysmenorrhea are: For the
Obstructive form surgical methods are necessary. If the obstruction
is due to an attresia of the cervix, the best treatment to offer the
patient, is the amputation of the cervix, with thorough dilatation of
the remaining portion of the neck. If it is due to a contraction of
the cervical neck, the treatment is dilatation of the internal os.
This latter procedure is indispensable in such cases.
The neuralgic type, one of the following remedies will cure the
case:
Macrotin will cure, if the pain passes from hip-point to hip-point
with downward pressure.
Tinct. Belladonna and Tinct. Gelsemium, equal parts, in five drop
doses every half-hour in hot water, is curative if the pain begins
before the flow does.
Caulophyllum, in small doses frequently repeated, will cure if the
pain begins after the flow has started.
Rhus Tox., 1-50 grain twice daily, or possibly the tincture of Dul-
camara, in drop doses every half-hour, will serve such cases
better, if the pain is present only during stormy damp weather.
Crocus Sat, in minute doses, if the pain is colicy and the flow black,
changing to light, and vica versa.
Kreosotum, in minute doses, if the flow smarts.
For ordinary Dysmenorrhea, give the following —
IJ Viburnum Prunifolium grs. lx
Hydrastis Can. grs. lx
Jamaica Dogwood grs. xxx
Aqua 5 iv
M sig. Teaspoonful every hour until relieved.
n
VAGINITIS
105
Potas. Iodide
3i
Tinct. Belladonna
5 ss
Tinct. Crocus Sat.
o i
Tinct. Viburnum op.
o i
Syr. Auranti Cort.
oiv
sig. Teaspoonful four
times
daily, beginning six days
before the period.
M
Membranous Dysmenorrhea may be cured by the administration of
Borax, 5 grains 3 times daily.
Atresia — contraction of the canal, and flexions — produce the fol-
lowing reflex conditions: Headache — dizziness — opisthotonous —
and hysteria.
In membranous Dysmenorrhea, there is always an interchange
or metastasis between the monthly period and an eruption on the
skin.
In ordinary Dysmenorrhea, dilatation is a very important means
of relief. The forceps or dilator introduced twenty-four or forty-eight
hours before the expected time.
VAGINITIS.
Vaginitis may be either specific or granular. The simple form
of Vaginitis may be either acute or chronic. If acute, it may be
primary or secondary succeeding some other trouble.
CAUSES.
1st. Excoriating fluid, such as Leucorrhea.
2nd. Exposure to cold.
3rd. Injury from pessaries, etc.
4th. Disordered system, as from Phthisis.
5th. Abscesses.
6th. Retention of putrifying fluid, as from the placenta in
abortion.
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7th. Chemical agents.
8th. Rupture of the Rougae folds, in childbirth.
9th. Cotton tampons and sponges.
It runs its course in from twelve to eighteen days.
SYMPTOMS.
Sense of heat and burning in the vaginal walls, aching and beat-
ing in the perineum, frequent urinating, purulent discharge and very
offensive.
PHYSICAL SIGNS.
Swelling of the mucus membrane and dry like pleurisy, very red
and later pus.
In making examinations of this kind, be very careful of innocula-
tion. The complications will be Urethritis and Cystitis.
The specific form is, of course, infectious and contagious.
SYMPTOMS.
Heat, swelling and purulent discharges, with scalding when in
the act of urinating.
The granular form is the same as the above, except for the forma-
tion of granulations throughout the vault.
TREATMENT.
In acute forms of Vaginitis, administer Aconite or Belladonna,
in minute doses, frequently repeated. In connection with these, use
douches of Pinus Canadensis, tablespoonful to one pint of water,
night and morning.
VAGINISMUS— FLEXIONS 107
VAGINISMUS.
Vaginismus is an inflammation of the tissue surrounding the
ostium vagina, and with extreme sensitiveness of the parts; and is
frequently due to an irritable hymen or irritable fragments of the
same. The pain and tenderness are diagnostic — remove the cause
and sustain the general health of the patient.
Vaginismus being due to irritability of the hymen or fragments
of the same, dilatation and such-like barbarous treatment, will not
suffice to cure.
Cure the case by removing the cause with a pair of curved scis-
sors and make yourself famous. If contractions should succeed the
removal, introduce into the vagina Sim's Glass Tube, and allow it
to remain in place several hours at a time.
FLEXIONS.
Diseased conditions following Flexions are —
1st. Congestion of the parts.
2nd. Dysmenorrhea.
3rd. Heamatocele.
4th. Ovaritis and inflammation of the tubes.
5th. Pelvic Peritonitis.
6th. Neuralgia.
7th. Cystitis.
8th. Improverished system.
9th. Relaxation of Abdominal walls.
10th. Constipation.
11th. Chronic headache.
TREATMENT.
Anti-versions and anti-flexions of the womb are the most difficult
mal-positions to deal with, and are best treated by the gravitation
method combined with a mechanical repositing of the organ. Place
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the patient upon the back, reposite the womb and elevate the hips.
Keep this position for some weeks, or insert a stem pessary.
Retro-versions and Retro-flexions may be corrected by a speedy
surgical interference. // no adhesions exist, anaesthetize the patient
and proceed as in a case of Vaginal Hysterectomy, by making an
incision over the anterior surface of the cervix. Dissect the bladder
wall from the anterior surface of the fundus of the womb, then pass
a large full curved needle through the fundus of the womb, carrying
with it a large silk ligature, then down and through the cervical lip.
Xow with a repositor or a sound bring the womb up to its proper
anterior relations, then tie the ligature near the cervical portion.
This holds the organ in its proper relation, and elevates at the same
time the bladder attachments as dissected up from the muscular por-
tion of the uterus. Thus a space is made for new tissue, which will
soon fill with granulation. Thus the anterior wall of the womb is
increased in thickness and prevents its return to a retroverted or
retroflexed position. The ligature is allowed to remain for two
weeks, when it is removed. Xo sutures are to be employed in the
case and but simple dressings are to be made in the vaginal vault.
Where adhesions exist, this operation, as devised by myself, cannot
be done. In cases where adhesions exist the abdominal operation
is the only one. Alexander's operation is not practicable and should
never be attempted in any of these cases. In mild forms of Retro-
version, the womb may be caused to keep its place after a month's
treatment by repositing and tampon supports.
DISTURBED MENSTRUATION.
There are seven crises of Disturbed Menstruation —
1st. Crisis of Puberty.
2nd. Menstruation and Ovulation.
3rd. Pregnancy.
4th. Parturition.
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5th. Puerpurality.
6th. Lactation.
7th. Climacteric.
Causes of diseased conditions in menstruation are : Early mother-
hood — heredity — and ignorance or neglect.
Causes of delayed menstruation are —
1st. Condition of the blood.
2nd. Mal-nutrition.
2rd. Nerve exhaustion.
4th. Heredity. .
5th. Imperfect or imperforate hymen.
6th. Deformities.
7th. Flexions.
8th. Diseased conditions.
Suppression of menses may be due to —
1st. Heredity.
2nd. Acute disease.
3rd. Idiosyncrasies.
4th. Congestion from exposure.
5th. Disturbed digestion.
6th. Unwise eating.
7th. Improper hygiene.
8th. Chronic Phthisis — Peritonitis — Cellulitis.
9th. Super-involution of the uterus after childbirth.
Retention of the menses may be due to —
1st. Stenosis and inflammation of the cervical canal.
2nd. Flexions.
3rd. Obliteration of the canal.
4th. Polypus.
5th. Inversion.
110 MENORRHAGIA AND METRORRHIA
MENORRHAGIA AND METRORRHIA.
The first means "I flow fiercely." The second means "I 'flow
after, or again." The first is most common after the fortieth year,
and is due to either Metritis or acute and sub-acute Ovaritis. It is
the twin of Sub-involution.
CAUSES.
1st. Continual delicacy.
2nd. Mal-nutrition.
3rd. Anaemia.
4th. Over-work or over-education.
5th. Climatic changes.
6th. Mental disturbance.
7th. Acute disease.
8th. Plethora.
9th. Heart affection.
10th. Liver disorders, (a) Constipation, (b) Veinous Ob-
structions.
11th. Chronic inflammation with Hypertrophy.
12th. Sub-involution.
13th. Fibroid growths.
14th. Polypii.
loth. Malignant diseases of the womb.
16th. Endo-metritis.
17th. Inversion of the womb.
18th. Displacements, such as versions and flexions.
19th. Granulations and lacerations of the cervix.
20th. Retained products of conception.
21st Congenital affections of the uterus, ovaries, and tubes.
22nd. Suspicious diseases of the vagina and vulva.
From the 11th to the 22nd inclusive, belong both Menorrhagia
and Metrorrhagia.
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TREATMENT.
Ustilago, in ordinary doses, is a remedy of prime importance.
Aletris, one-half ounce in five ounces of Sherry Wine, and give a
teaspoonful four times daily. This is well-nigh a specific for
these troubles.
Macrotin, in half grain doses, twice daily, acts like magic.
Trillin, 1-10 grain doses four times daily, is the master remedy of
secondary hemorrhages from the womb.
Secale Cornutum will control flooding from a sub-involuted uterus.
Nitric Acid and Ipecac, in minute doses, will control and cure all
passive hemorrhages from the uterus.
Oil of Erigeron, three drops every half-hour in a little Alcohol, will
stop hemorrhages from the womb immediately.
Tinct. Cannabis Indica, 20% solution in Alcohol and give five drops
every half-hour, is a specific for flooding.
Fluid Hydrastis is better than Ergot in these cases.
CAUTION.
Never give Iron in any form during a flow, but give Quinine, in
grain doses four times daily, or China tincture, in five drop doses
before meals.
VICARIOUS MENSTRUATION.
This means the flow from other organs than the uterus, such as
the palms of the hands, the ears, the eyes, the nose, or the rectum.
Or it may mean a white flow when the monthly should appear. If
the former it will be cured by minute doses of Bryonia alb., three
times daily, for several months. If the latter it will be cured by the
administration of Nitrogenized Iron, in teaspoonful doses after meals.
112 METRITIS
METRITIS.
This word means an inflammation of the womb. The word Endo-
metritis means an inflammation of the lining membrane of the womb.
They are due to mal-position of the organ, or taking cold, or to
specific causes, or to injuries by the use of instruments, or to infec-
tion. In married life they are due most frequently to sub-involution
following childbirth. The mother who does not nurse her off-spring,
is invariably afflicted with Sub-involution of the uterus and sub :
sequent Endo-metritis.
SYMPTOMS.
Burning, pain, unnatural weight as if the organ would leave the
body, and Leucorrhea. *
REFLEX SYMPTOMS.
Neuralgia of the face and teeth — headache — indigestion — palpi-
tation of the heart — and difficult breathing.
Later on in the case a profuse discharge occurs, containing col-
numnar cells from the neck and cervix of the womb, and pavement
epithelial cells from the body of the womb. Microscopical investiga-
tion will thus show whether the secretion arises from the body of
the womb or the cervix. The vaginal epithelium is always com-
posed of squamous cells. In Metritis palpation reveals hardness,
increased size of the organ, tenderness and displacement downward.
Lacerations of the cervix-uteri are fruitful causes of Sub-involution
and subsequent Metritis. If the morbid phenomena are accompanied
with any degree of Laceration, nothing short of operative inter-
ference will be curative. If the Metritis is due to the entire absence
of lactation, or the sudden cessation of the nursing process, or the
sudden closing of the lochical discharge, their re-establishment must
be accomplished in the quickest manner possible.
If from the cessation of milk secretion, Ustilago will rejuvenate
the gland to action.
LEUCORRHEA 113
If from cessation of lochia, Bryonia alb., in minute doses fre-
quently given, will correct the trouble.
If the malady is due to specific causes, the anti-specific treatment
must ensue by the administration of Naphthalin, in grain doses
mixed in sugar of milk, and given four times daily.
Tinct. Gelsemium, in five drop doses in hot water five or six times
daily, will aid very much in the cure.
Intra-uterine injections of sterilized blood serum, or sterilized
Bovinine, through a recurrent cathater, is a method and cure which
I have devised for these cases of specific Metritis, and yields the
speediest results of any known method. These injections are given
twice daily and hot.
Vaginal injections of the Bromide of Potash, one drachm to the
pint of water, in cases of so-called irritable uterus, diffuse pelvic pains,
and hysterical Neurosis in various parts of the body, are said to be
very valuable.
5 Hydrarg. Bi-Chlor. grs. ij
Cretae Prep. 3 viss
Tragacanth grs. xxiv
Glycerine and water q. s.
M et fiat 50 suppositories.
Sig. After washing the vagina, place one of these in
the vagina every night. This is an unfailing remedy
for Endo-metritis.
LEUCORRHEA.
Leucorrhea may be either acute or chronic. Acute forms of Leu-
corrhea may arise from mal-position of the uterus, Endo-metritis,
from acute febril diseases, taking cold, poorly nourished system, or
chemical irritation. It may arise from the body or the cervix of
the womb, due to laceration, or from the vaginal vault. The dis-
charge from the body of the womb is usually found very consistent :
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In Lumps, chunks or plugs. Its color is glairry. Its odor offensive
and purulent. The secretion from the cervix is usually milky and
viscid. The reaction from both the discharges is alkaline. The
former containing pavement epithelial cells, and the latter con-
taining columnar epithelial cells. While the discharge from the
vagina is curdy, cheesy, acid and corrosive, containing tessilated and
squamous epithelial cells. Reaction Acid. If an Acid Leucorrhea
exists, it may be Gonorrheal, in which case a microscope will reveal
gonnococcus. The curative means will depend entirely upon the
cause of the difficulty. Remove the cause and the discharge ceases.
If from Laceration of the cervix, repair the injury without delay, as
local applications will be of no permanent service whatever — a mis-
take too often indulged in by physicians, to the great detriment,
disappointment and financial loss of the patient. If the discharge
arises from the cavity of the uterus, an intra-uterine application may
be necessary, particularly so in the chronic forms and in which case
granular masses will be found covering the endo-metrium. These
latter must be removed bv the currette.
CAUTION.
Never make intra-uterine applications of Carbolic AcFd, unless
pure, and never make intra-uterine applications of any liquid, unless
through a recurrent cathater, or previous dilatation of the cervical
neck of the womb. Intra-uterine applications of Tinct. of Iodine, or
Pinus Canadensis, or corrosive Sublimate, hot, will be of great
service in the treatment of the case. Also Chloride Tinct. of Iron in
cases due to relaxation of the body of the womb, or the vaginal walls.
TREATMENT.
Iodide of Mercury, if the discharge is worse at night.
Iodide of Iron, if due to general loss of vitality.
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Iodide of Arsenic, if offensive and corrosive. Also Kreosotum.
Iodine, if accompanied by a loss of flesh while the appetite remains
good.
Helonin, if the patient is of a hysterical type with depression of
spirits.
Belladonna, in the acute form and accompanied by sterility.
Aletris Cordial may be made by mixing together, one drachm of
the Tinct. of Aletris and four ounces of Sherry Wine, giving one
teaspoonful three times daily. This applies particularly to Leu-
corrhea due to mal-position of the womb, or to ladies broken
down or worn out by womb trouble and loss of appetite.
Sulphite of Calcium, \ grain three times daily.
Sulphate of Iron, in ordinary doses and applied to the womb, is one
of the best remedies for Leucorrhea due to a relaxed condition
of the womb and vagina.
VAGINAL LOTIONS.
For Leucorrhea, Blennorrhea, relaxed conditions of the Mucus
Membrane, Excoriations and Irritations.
5 Tinct. Geranium Maculatum § ij
Hamamelis Virginiana 5 ij
Tinct. Hydrastis Canadensis 5 ss
Aquae Bullientis § xiss
M et filter.
Sig. Inject freely night and morning.
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I£ Tinct Geranium Maculatum 5 ij
Tinct. Iris Florentine § ss
Tinct. Sodae Boras 3 i
Aquae Bullientis 5 viij
M et filter sig. As often as required.
For Fetor —
^ Tinct. Quercus alba. % ij
Tinct. Baptisia Tinctoria % i
Tinct. Ligusticum Leuisticum § i
Tinct. Carbolic Acid 3 ss
Aqua Bullientis ,5 x ij
U et filter.
Sig. To be used freely two or three times daily.
Long experience and observation have led me to the conclusion
that the majority of female complaints are due to acid conditions
of the fluids of the body, especially of the mucus membrane, and
that this acid state should be neutralized as the first step in all suc-
cessful treatment. Therefore, anti-acids should be given for at least
one week before local treatments are employed.
ABDOMINAL TUMORS.
When an abdominal tumor is discovered, the first question that
presents itself, is: What is it? All abdominal tumors are either
fibrous, fibro-cystic, or cystic.
Fibroids may be found extra-uterine, inter-uterine (between the
muscular layers of the womb), or intra-uterine. They grow very
slowly and painlessly and are usually of small size. Their presence
is always indicated where severe hemorrhages and excessive flowing
from the womb occurs. This is diagnostic. They are hard and
nodular like the formation of a potato. There may be several of
these growths present at the same time,
ABDOMINAL TUMORS 117
TREATMENT.
The remedy, is Secale Cornutum or Ustilago, in long continued
doses covering many months.
The Chloride of Ammonia, in 10 grain doses administered for a long
time, in connection with the administration of Ergot, in half-
teaspoonful doses, is said to have cured these cases where the
tumor is of small size.
Fl. Ex. Hydrastis, in eight drop doses three times daily, has cured
a few of these cases in my practice where Ergot and Ammonia
failed.
If the tumor is of large size and the hemorrhages are dangerous,
medicine should not be administered for their removal, as sloughing
is liable to occur where Ergot is administered in large and continued
doses. The removal of large Fibroid Growths, can be more safely
accomplished and with better results with the knife, or by the
surgeon.
Fibro-Cystic tumors are to be dealt with after the same manner as
the foregoing.
Cystic Tumors. If the growth is below the umbilicus and in the
median line, and is three or more years old, it is uterine, and
painless, and may be a Fibroid. If so it will be accompanied by
severe hemorrhages. If it is three years old, and ascends above
the umbilicus and remains stationary, while the patient lies upon
either side, it is Ovarian and, therefore, cystic, or Sarcomatous.
If it is malignant, there will exist a dropsy of the belly and of
the feet, and the urea passed during any 24 hours, will be about
180 grains or three drachms, which is very much below the
normal. This is adsolutely diagnostic of Malignant growths
in the abdomen of women. There mav be found in a woman a
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cyst of the broad-ligament, encysted peritoneal dropsy, and a
cyst of the ovary, all of which contain an opelescent fluid. How
shall we distinguish the difference? The first does not con-
tain albumin. The second does contain albumin, and the
third contains both albumin and par-albumin. Obtain a speci-
men of the fluid by aspiration, and submit it to a test for albu-
min, and if it is present, the cyst is either of the second or third
variety. Now add an excess of Acetic Acid to the specimen,
and if it clears up, it is en-cysted peritoneal dropsy. If it does
not clear up, it is a cyst of the ovary. This is absolutely
diagnostic.
If the tumor is suspected as complicated with pregnancy, the
pulse of the patient will remain the same in the three positions:
standing — sitting — and lying. This is likewise diagnostic. With a
change of color in the breast and the stationary character of the
pulse, and the patient is not hemorrhoidal, and the uterus is of the
egg-plant color, purple, and the lips of the womb are soft like the
lips of the mouth, the tumor is pregnancy.
The uterine murmur is not a reliable sign of pregnancy, as it
may exist in Fibroid tumors and Aneurism of the aorta.
TREATMENT.
Ovarian cysts are said to have been cured by the administration
of minute doses of Apis Melifica. This is not true of cysts that have
attained any considerable size.
Surgical pocedure is the proper one for the removal of these
growths.
Encysted peritoneal dropsy may be removed by several and
repeated aspirations.
So also may a cyst of the broad-ligament be cured by the same
method.
HEADACHE 119
However, the surgical removal of a broad-ligament is the best
procedure.
HEADACHE.
Headache may be either congestive and local, or reflex. Con-
gestive is due to local causes, and reflex may be due to many causes,
viz. : Rectal diseases — uterine — ovarian — tubal — cystic — vaginal —
gastric — hepatic — splenic — in fact a reflex headache may have its
origin from any of the abdominal or pelvic viscera. Headache being
such a common malady, demands the attention of the physician more
frequently than any other with which he meets. The duty of every
physician, is to relieve this suffering in the quickest way possible,
palliatively. The curative treatment depends entirely upon the cause.
There is no sense in giving medicine to patients whose headache
arises from surgical diseases of the pelvis, such as Piles, Fissures,
Fistulas, Pappilae, Rectal Abscesses, Displacements of the Womb,
or any mal-position of Genito-urinary Organs. These must be
treated surgically as well as medicinally.
REMEDIES (Palliative).
Ammonol, ten grain doses, repeat in 30 minutes. This is the first
great remedy.
Potassium Iodide, two grains in a half glass of water, sip slowly,
relieves in 15 minutes.
Tinct. Melilotus, one drop, relieves in 5 minutes.
REMEDIES (Curative).
Congestive Headache.
Belladonna, in minute doses three times daily, for a throbbing head-
ache, red watery eyes which cannot bear light.
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Gelsemium, in minute doses, when the pain is like a band or hoop
around the head.
Bryonia, in minute doses, for morning headache worse on motion,
and passing from the forehead backward over the head.
Nitro-Glycerine, in minute doses, for throbbing, pulsating headache
as if the head would burst. Involving the jaws and teeth, and
made worse by the hot sun and by motion.
Reflex Headache.
Nervous — Tinct. of Sumbul, in five drop doses, in general nervous
debility.
Spigelia, in minute doses, where the heart is involved.
Nux Vomica, in minute doses, where the head feels too big.
Ignatia, in minute doses, as if a nail were driven into the head.
Glonoine, in very minute doses, where the trifacial nerve is involved.
Sepia, in minute doses, where uterine diseases exist.
Sick Headache.
Iris (Blue Flag), in minute doses, where it begins over the eyes
accompanied with vomiting.
Ipecac, in very minute doses, where nausea prevails.
Tinct. Cocculus Indicus, three drops, three times daily, where it is
due to the motion of a carriage, car, swing, or a boat.
Peach Pits, dried, then cracked and eat three or four kernels daily.
This is very choice for chronic forms.
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Epiphegus Yirginiana, in minute doses, one dose every 20 minutes,
is an absolute specific for sick headache.
Zinc Yal., in minute doses, for fidgity feeling of the feet.
Cimicifuga, in minute doses, where the uterus is involved.
Cannabis Indica, in minute doses, with a sense of pressure on top
of the head.
Phosphate of Iron, in minute doses, and Chionanthus. in minute
doses three times daily, are also good remedies.
Headache in General.
Put the hands in cold water. This relieves immediately.
I? Caffein Citrate i ^ gTS xx
Ammonium Carb. J
Elixir Guaranae § i
M sig. Teaspoonful every hour until pain is relieved.
HEART.
Aconite, in minute doses, for pain in the heart affecting the left arm.
Acetate of Copper, in minute doses, oppression, and rigid spasm.
Cimicifuga, in minute doses, irregular heart action reflex from
uterine trouble.
Cactus Grandiflora, in minute doses, where the heart feels as if bound
by a grasping hand.
Digitalis, in minute doses, where the pulse is very small and irreg-
ular, and sand is in the urine.
Kalmia Latifolia, in minute doses, following rheumatism, or where
the heart itself is affected with rheumatism.
122 HEART
Crotalas 4x Trit. (Snake Poison), where there are sharp stinging
pains in the heart.
Phos. of Iron, three grains four times daily, in Anaemic troubles.
Moschus Tincture, one drop every two or three hours, in hysterical
heart.
Nitro-Glycerine, 1-200 grain, as a heart stimulant.
Hyoscyamus, in minute doses, for nervous palpitation.
Lilium Tig., in minute doses, where the heart feels as if it were
pressed between two hard substances.
There is no remedy in the catalogue of medicines which yields
such universal results in the various heart affections as Apocynum
Cannabinum. It combines all the benefits of Digitalis without the
cumulative effects. Give it in all heart diseases from two to five
drop doses of the fluid extract every three or five hours. This
remedy is excellent in all forms of Dropsy also.
Heart Tonic —
IJ Tinct. Strophanthus
Tinct. Digitalis .aa 3 ss
Tinct. Convalaria
Syrup simple add. § iv
M sig. - Teaspoonful every four or five hours.
Dropsy with Heart Trouble —
1} Blue Mass grs. xxv
Solid Ex. Digitalis grs. xv
Pulv. Gamboge grs. vij
Pulv. Squilla grs. vij
M et fiat— 45 pills.
Sig. Three every two hours until bowels move freely.
Repeat every 24 hours as the case requires.
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HEARTBURN (Water-Brash).
Tinct. Cinnamon, in minute doses.
Chalk, in three grain doses.
Nux Vomica, in grain doses.
Lactopeptin, ten to twenty grains.
Salt, one-half teaspoonful in a little cold water, affords instant relief.
Argentum Nitricum, in minute doses, cures heartburn.
Arsenic, in minute doses, is unexcelled.
HICCOUGH (Spasms of the Diaphragm).
The best method of curing hiccough instantly is by compression
of the phrenic nerve, which passes down the neck upon either side
of the wind-pipe, and is easily compressed inside of the inner end
of the clavicle, or collar-bone, holding the thumbs or fingers tightly
at this point of the neck. This will soon stop hiccough.
Paint the sides of the neck with the Tinct. Iodine.
Quinine, ten grains, is a sure cure; one dose only.
Snuff Pepper, or anything that will produce sneezing, will stop
hiccough.
HYSTERIA.
Dashing cold water into the face of the patient will revive him
at once.
Asafoetida, five grains in hot milk given as an injection into the
bowel two or three times daily, will cure Hysteria.
Cimicifuga, in minute doses, at the change of life, or irregular
monthly.
124 HEAT RASH— HIVES
Chloride of Gold, in minute doses, where melancholy exists, or a
disposition to commit suicide.
Zinc Val., mixed in ten times its weight with sugar of milk and
ground together thoroughly, and give three grains three or
four times daily, cures.
Tinct. Ignatia, in drop doses, where the Hysteria is due to disap-
pointed love, or grief of any kind; this will speedily cure.
Give Hysterical patients Sumbul Cordial, made of Sumbul tinc-
ture, two drachms, and the best Sherry Wine, four ounces. Give
a teaspoonful three times daily.
HEAT RASH.
(Prickly Heat.) '
Tinct. of Nettle Weed (Urtica Urens), is the sheet anchor for Nettle
Rash or Heat Rash. Give drop doses every two or three hours.
Tinct. of Rumex Crisp (Yellow Dock), in 10 drop doses in water,
is a specific.
HIVES.
Carb. Ammonia, in two grain doses, is a certain cure.
Dulcamara, in minute doses, where hives are due to living or work-
ing in damp places.
Chloral Hydrate, in grain doses, cures without one failure.
The sheet anchor for hives is: Six honey bees dropped alive into
four ounces of Alcohol, and allowed to stand 24 hours; then filter
the liquid through fine cheese cloth, and take five drops in water
every two or three hours. This is an absolute cure for all forms
of hives.
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Salicylate of Soda, in 15 grain doses, every two hours until four
doses have been taken. This is likewise a certain relief.
Quinine, in four grain doses after meals, is curative of hives. A
salve made of Quinine and Vaseline will stop the itching of
hives when applied. So will vinegar.
Vinegar, in tablespoonful doses three or four times daily, will cure
when all else fails.
HERNIA (Rupture).
Seize the patient by the feet and turn him wrong end up; hold
in this position for a few minutes, and the bowel will go back to
its place.
Place the patient into a hot bath for 20 or 30 minutes, and the
rupture may be reduced very readily.
Apply Ether on cotton for 15 or 20 minutes, and success may
result.
Give the patient cupful after cupful of hot coffee, and bathe the
parts with the same. Pretty soon the gas will escape and the bowel
will go back into its place, after the hips have been elevated. If
these fail, call in the surgeon, and proceed at once to operate.
HYDROPHOBIA.
Tinct. Belladonna, five drop doses every hour or two. Keep the
patient under its influence for weeks. If spasms set in, give
ten drop doses. Keep up a free perspiration by the use of the
Tinct. of Jaborandi, hypodermically.
Apply Slake Lime plentifully to the parts, and renew as often as
the Lime becomes green; then bathe the parts with hot Vinegar,
wipe perfectly dry, and cauterize with Nitric Acid. This last
treatment is preventive of Hydrophobia.
126 HOMESICKNESS— HAY FEVER
The remedy that never fails, in the case of a mad-dog bite, is to
procure a half dozen fowls, pluck the feathers from the fleshy part
of one, and tear off the skin of the part and apply the raw surface
to the bite; the fowl will die in ten seconds, the second in two min-
utes, the third in six minutes, the fourth in ten minutes, the fifth
will become giddy, but will not die. The poison is extracted — the
patient is saved.
HOMESICKNESS.
Acetate of Copper, in minute doses three times daily.
Phosphoric Acid, in minute doses every three or four hours.
Hydro-Bromate of Hyoscin, in 1-50 grain doses three times daily,
is the specific for Homesickness.
HYDROCELE (Water in the Scrotum).
Let cold water run upon the parts two or three times daily.
Apis Melifica, in minute doses, is the remedy for Hydrocele.
HYDROCEPHALUS (Water on the Brain).
Tinct. Phosphorus, in drop doses in water three times daily, keeping
the child in a lying position, with the body and limbs warm.
Zinc Phos., in minute doses three times daily.
Apis Melifica, in minute doses every three or four hours, is quite
curative.
HAY FEVER.
Xaphthalin, mixed with sugar of milk one part to twenty parts, and
give three grains every hour during the day. This is a posi-
tive cure.
HIGH IEMPERATURE— HAIR 127
Insert dry absorbent cotton so as to fill pretty nearly the cavity
of the nose; renew it twice daily, and in a few days the patient is
well. If the cotton is first soaked in Vinegar and then dried, it
acts better.
Tinct. Sabadilla, in two drop doses four times daily, cures in a week.
Xitrate of Sanguinaria, in minute doses, is a sheet anchor.
Use Marchand's Hydrozone as a preventive.
See "Asthma/-'
HIGH TEMPERATURE.
Ammonol, in ten grain doses, and repeat in an hour.
Tinct. Aconite, in two drop doses every hour or two.
Tinct. Veratrum Viride, in two drop doses every hour or two.
Application of Alcohol to the surfaces.
Cold Bath.
In all cases of high temperature, from inflammatory causes, be
careful not to reduce the temperature down to the normal, as tem-
perature aids in the elimination of the disease; therefore, it should
never be reduced to the normal point too quickly.
HAIR.
I will state as a theory that which I believe will be demonstrated
to be tenable; namely, that premature baldness and loss of hair in
men are due largely to overindulgence in sexuality.
Heredity and diseased conditions of the scalp will account for
loss of hair in some cases, but such as are due to heredity may be
traced directlv to excess in sexualitv. The testimonv is, that those
128 HAIR
suffering from overworked sexual organs complain of a sore, tender
feeling or excessive itching over the top of the head and at the
hair-roots, and following overindulgence the hair is lost in large
quantities. In woman the loss is not so great, and the reasons are
apparent at first thought. The loss of vital fluids is not great in
woman. In men of the above characteristics the loss of hair is.
not confined to the scalp, but is noticeable over the whole body;
so that the remedy is, "cease excess." The drug best adapted for
these cases is Tincture of China off., taken in 5 drop doses three
times daily. With these directions I have cured many cases. The
following application should be made to the scalp —
R Eau de Cologne g v*j
Aqua Ammonia 5 ss
Tinct. Cantharis gtts. x
Oil Rose Mary gtts. xxiv
M sig. Apply to the roots of the hair. This prevents its
falling and inspires its growth.
The sheet anchor for falling hair and diseases of the scalp is —
I£ Corrosive Sublimate grs. v
Eau de Cologne f> viij
Tinct. Cantharis gtts. xv
Castor Oil 3 i
M sig. Apply once daily.
A good old-fashioned remedy for falling hair is Onion juice,
applied twice weekly.
For baldness apply an emulsion made of Black Oats, by boiling
and grinding the same, shells and all; strain through a cheese cloth
and dilute the liquid until it is the consistency of cream. Apply
this night and morning to the scalp.
Administer by the mouth, in small doses, Hepar Sulphur, where
a pustular or papular eruption exists.
HEMORRHAGES 129
Administer Silicea, Arsenic, or Graphites, in minute doses as the
case may require, until the results are obtained. (See "Dandruff.")
Grey hair may be restored to its original color by bathing it in
Salt water daily, or in the sap of Grape Vines.
To remove superfluous hair —
IJ Barium Sulph. I >>
Slacked Lime J
Flour 5 ij
^r Make a paste with water and apply, allowing it to
remain 5 or 8 minutes; then remove with a dull knife.
See "Dandruff" and "Scalp."
HEMORRHAGES (Bleeding).
IN GENERAL WOUNDS.
If possible, in hemorrhages arising from a wound, apply a tight
compress between the heart and wound, being careful to make the
application of the ligature, or compress, tight enough to stop the
hemorrhage entirely from the arteries, or else the blood will flow
out of the wounded veins. A hemorrhage from the arteries comes
in spurts, and is bright red in color. The flow from the veins is
smooth, like water from a rubber tube, and is dark.
Apply very hot water, Chloroform, solutions of Iron, Powdered
Tannic Acid, Pulverized Green Tea, Pulverized Oak Bark, or Oak
Balls, compress the edges of the wound together and hold them
tightly for half an hour. Apply Vinegar, Cobwebs, Burnt Straw,
Puff Balls, Smutt from Rye or Corn, Turpentine.
A saturated solution of Antipyrine and Tannic Acid, mixed and
applied, is an excellent styptic.
Hemostatic Collodion —
I£ Collodion 13 fl. ozs.
Carbolic Acid 1 troy oz.
Tannin 5 drs.
Benzoic Acid 3 drs.
M and apply.
130 HEMORRHAGES
SPECIAL HEMORRAGES.
FROM THE NOSE.
The best treatment are injections of Lemon juice into the
nostrils, and the administration of the same, in teaspoonful dqses.
Snuff Powdered Green Tea.
Elevate one hand and arm above the head.
Put a 50 ct. piece under the tongue and force it against the
tissues.
Press firmly the facial artery on the side of the face from which
the blood comes; it will be found midway between the chin and the
tip of the ear, along the edge of the lower jaw-bone.
Tie a string around a finger and cut off the circulation for ten
or fifteen minutes.
Thrust the hands and feet into very hot water.
FROM THE LUNGS.
The quickest relief is a hypodermic injection, over the thorax,
of 1-200 grain of the Sulphate of Atropia.
For all dangerous Internal Hemorrhages —
1} Sat. Tinct. Secale Cornutnm
Sat. Tinct. Cinnamonum cort. ^aa q l
Sat. Tinct. Oil Erigoroin Car .. J
M sig. Thirty to sixty drops on sugar, or in mucilage,
and repeat as often as required until the hemorrhage
is controlled, when smaller doses should be given on
extended time. For local hemorrhage of any part
of the body, where this preparation can be applied, it
will be found of great efficacy as a safe styptic, espe-
cially in epistaxis (nose bleed).
Administer teaspoonful doses of Vinegar every 10 or 15 minutes.
HEMORRHAGES 131
Common relief is found in table salt, in teaspoonful doses.
Administer Wine of Ipecac., in 15 drop doses, every 15 minutes.
It is absolutely specific.
If the blood is frothy and comes up very easily, the Tinct. of
Aconite, in drop doses every half hour, will cure it.
Oil of Erigeron, six drops on sugar, will arrest bleeding from the
lungs instantly.
FROM THE STOMACH.
Hypodermic injections of 40 drops of Ergot over the region of
the stomach, and the administration of -J grain of Ipecac, by mouth
every 20 minutes, will act like magic. The same treatment may be
applied for hemorrhages of the bowel, kidney, bladder, and womb.
The specific treatment for hemorrhages of the womb consists of
the use of large quantities of very hot water, poured into the vagina
with a fountain syringe. This will check every such hemorrhage
of the womb, and is a woman's safe-guard.
PASSIVE HEMORRHAGES.
OF THE UTERUS.
Trillin, given in one grain doses three times daily, is master of the
situation.
Nitric Acid, ten drops in a glass of water, and give a teaspoonful
every two or three hours.
Tinct. Cinnamon, in three drop doses every one or two hours.
Nux Moschata, in minute doses, is a very good remedy for this
trouble.
Chlorate of Potash, in five grain doses once daily.
Tinct. of Phosphorus, one drop twice daily for a month or more,
should be given to all persons who have a disposition to bleed
upon every slight injury. (Hemorrhagic Diathesis) such as
bleeding gums after the extraction of teeth.
See "Gums."
132 IMPOTENCE
IMPOTENCE (Loss of Manhood).
There are three forms of Impotence.
1st. Complete inability of erection.
2nd. Where the erection is not complete and the seminal fluid
is discharged before intercourse is had.
3rd. Where the fear of not being able to maintain intercourse
makes it impossible to have the same.
The remedial agents for Impotence must be directed to the spinal
lesion that exists in the case. All attempts at coition must cease
while the difficulty lasts.
The one great remedy is —
1^ Zinc Phosphide grs. ij
Confection of Rosae gtts. x
M and divide into 2-1 pills.
Sig. Take one to three pills three times daily.
Another choice remedy is —
I£ Nux Vomica Pulv. grs. i
Secale Cor. Pu.lv. grs. vi
M and divide into three powders.
Sig. Take one powder morning and evening after
eating.
Sanmetto, given in teaspoonful doses three times daily, is well-nigh
a specific.
Phosphoric Acid (dilute), given in ten drop doses in water after
each meal.
Fl. Ex. Ergot, 15 drops injected over the dorsum of the penis once
daily, is recommended very highly. If Dropsy of the parts
occur, these injections must discontinue.
In all cases of Impotence cold applications of Camphorated
water should be made over the back and hips night and morning.
INSANITY— IRRITABILITY 133
All Impotent persons who expect to be cured must avoid tobacco
and all stimulants, and society of women.
Agnus Castus, in drop doses of the tincture every five hours, is the
absolute specific for sexual inability from any cause.
Tinct. Thuja, five drops three times daily, will cure every case.
Fl. Ex. Damiana, one teaspoonful four times daily, is excellent for
shrunken testicles.
INSANITY.
The one great remedy for insanity of women is hypodermic injec-
tions of the Hydro-Bromate of Hyoscin, 1-50 grain four times daily.
Fl. Ex. Ustilago, in drachm doses every six hours, is very valuable
in these cases.
Tinct. Cannabis Indica, in 20 drop doses three or four times daily
in water, and injected into the rectum, is, in combination with
Tinct. of Stramonium, five to eight drops, one of the best rem-
edies for insanity, whether it be of the mild or refractory type.
This is the grand mental remedy. Mix these remedies together.
Passiflora Incarnata tincture in teaspoonful doses daily is a "majestic
remedy for insanity."
Bromide of Potash, in 15 grain doses, is a fair remedy as a hypnotic,
but has no curative properties, except such as come from sleep.
IRRITABILITY.
The great remedy for adults is Nux Vomica, in 1-10 grain doses
after meals.
The great remedy for children is Cina, in very minute doses.
Antimonium Crudum, in minute doses, is good.
Chamomilla, in minute doses, is the remedy for cross teething
children.
134 ITCH— INSECT BITES
ITCH (Scabies).
Strong Alcohol, well rubbed in, cures in five minutes.
The par excellent remedy for Itch is —
IJ Carbonate Potash 5 ss
Sulphur grs. x
Vaseline 5 ss
M- and apply. This cures instantly.
The Lye of Wood Ashes, diluted in rain water, applied to suit
the sensation, cures in three days.
ITCHING ERUPTIONS.
Menthol, Ether solution 5%, applied by a camel-hair brush.
Bicarbonate of Soda, saturated solution, applied frequently.
Pulverized Borax, dry or in solution, will cure all pruritic eruptions
of the vagina or anus.
Itching from seat worms will be cured by applying lard inside
the rectum.
I> Glycerine o v
Sub. Nitrate Bismuth .5 iss
Quinine Sulph. 5 ss
M and rub together thoroughly.
Sig. Apply as often as needed.
Pure Vinegar, applied, is very excellent.
INSECT BITES.
Applications of Ammonia, Oil of Peppermint, Oil of Pennyroyal,
and of Mud, are good for insect bites.
JAUNDICE— JERKING AND TWITCHING 135
A preventive for insect bites is Quassia tea; rubbed upon the
hands and exposed parts. This keeps off flies, gnats, and mosquitoes.
Persian Chamomile Dust, in an earthen vessel and lighted, will
destroy all insect life in a closed room without injury to. man.
Sandal Wood, burned in a house, will rid it of all flying insects.
JAUNDICE.
The great remedy for Jaundice and all liver diseases is Chionia,
in teaspoonful doses four or five times daily.
Leptandrin, given in small and continued doses four times daily,
cures Jaundice.
A charming remedy is Podophyllum, in minute doses; especially
for children having white stools.
Tinct. of China, in two or three drop doses, is one of the best
remedies.
Myricin, 1-50 grain every four hours, is an excellent remedy.
Olive Oil, one-half cupful every day, soon cures.
Chloroform, four drops on sugar three times daily, will effectually
cure any case of Jaundice.
JERKING AND TWITCHING.
Of the eyelids, give Physostigma.
Of the facial muscles, give Phosphorus.
Of the mouth, give Magnesium Phos. Ignatia, or Zinc.
Of the arms and hands, give Cicuta Virosa.
!36 JOINT AFFECTIONS— KIDNEY
All these remedies must be given in small doses.
Euphrasia is specific for twitching of the eye.
Spigelia. for painful twitching of the eyelids.
Hydro-Bromate of Hyoscin, 1-50 grain three times daily, for chorea
and palsy.
JOINT AFFECTIONS.
The two great and best remedies for inflammation of joints are
Ruta Grav. and Rhododendron, given in minute doses.
Tinct. Pulsatilla, in five drop doses, is good for inflammatory con-
ditions of the joints.
Carbonate of Lime, in minute doses, is excellent for lime deposits
in the joints.
For the pain, as well as the inflammation, apply Veratrin, eight
grains, and Vaseline, one ounce, well mixed together.
For Syphilitic deposits in the bones or joints, give a preparation
of Gold; preferably the metal in minute doses.
For swelling and tumefaction of the joints, rub well with Ichthyol.
For Necrosis or ulceration of the joints, where a fistula exists,
inject a solution of Lactopeptin. Administer Silicea, in minute
doses, every hour for 12 hours only.
The best application in joint diseases, particularly where there
are stiff conditions, is a good, big, hot hay poultice. This is the
thing for Ankylosis, administer Silicea, in minute doses.
KIDNEY.
For an acute inflammation give Aconite, in minute doses, fre-
quently repeated.
The great specific for the various Kidney diseases is the Tinct.
of Berberis Vulgaris, in minute doses.
KIDNEY 137
Tinct. Cantharis, in J drop doses repeated at intervals of six hours,
is good for acute inflammation of the Kidneys., especially where
there is blood in the urine.
For an inactive Kidney, or suppression of urine, give Tinct. of
Hyoscyamus, in minute doses, every hour.
Fl. Ex. Ustilago Maydis, in 10 to 20 drop doses, is one of the best
remedies for irritable Kidneys.
Cold water, in large quantities, should be given to patients suffer-
ing from Kidney troubles.
K Ft Ex. Stigmata Maydis fl § *
Fl. Ex. Queen of Meadow fl 5 iss
Acetate of Potash 5 iij
Sp. Juniper q.s. add. J iv
M- sig. Teaspoonful four times daily. This is choice for
Kidney, Bladder and Urethral troubles.
For gravel in the Kidney give the following —
R Boro-Citrate Magnesia .5 ij
Water 5 viij
M sig. One teaspoonful three times daily.
For Diabetes give four grains of Boro-Citrate of Magnesia three
times daily.
Lee's Gravel Remedy —
R Sapo. Yenet 3 vij
Sal. Xiter Pul. vi
Oil Juniper 5 vi
Gum Arabic Pulv. 3 i
Sal. Absynth 5 i
M by beating into a mass and make into pills the size of
a buck-shot, and give one pill three times daily, on an
empty stomach. Keep the mass entirely excluded from
the air. in a bladder or wide mouth bottle, or covered
with oil silk.
Drink Dandelion tea. and absolutely nothing else.
138 LARYNGITIS
The most important thing to do for any patient who is suffering
from mild or severe acute inflammation of the Kidney, is to insist
upon absolute rest, the patient remaining in bed not only for the
rest, but also in order that the surface of the body may be protected
from draughts and colds.
Pain referred to the meatus urinarius is sure to be the result
of Cystitis, Prostatitis, or Nephritis.
Swelling under the eyes, greyish, white, or waxy color of the
skin, denote granular disease of the Kidney.
The numbness of one finger indicates Kidney disease.
LARYNGITIS.
Spongia Tosta, in minute doses frequently repeated, is curative.
Sanguinaria Tincture, in drop doses every hour. Specific.
Metallic Silver, in minute doses, for professional singers.
Muriate of Potash, in very minute doses, for chronic Laryngitis
where a thick, ropy secretion exists.
The Bichromate of Potash, in very minute doses, for ropy secretions.
Stannum, in very minute doses, where the larynx feels raw and
the secretions taste sweet.
Drosera. in minute doses, where great hoarseness exists.
Atropine, 1-100 grain, for inability to speak aloud.
Phosphate of Iron, in grain doses, for the chronic forms.
LA GRIPPE— LIGHTNING STROKE 139
LA GRIPPE (Influenza).
This is a disease sudden in its attack, and its sources or causes
are as mysterious as the attack is sudden. "Sunspots," or the dis-
covery of a comet, or a change in government are as liable to be
the causes of La Grippe as anything else. It is epidemic on land
and sea alike. The nature of the disease is Rheumatic or Neuralgic
in character. However, it is not especially fatal.
It is characterized by sudden seizure of awful headache and grip-
ping pain, now here, now there, now over the body. The mucus
surfaces are affected in the form of a Coryza. Any case may be
cured by the following —
3J Tinct. Gelsemium 3 ij
Tinct. Rhus Tox. 5 i
M sig. Three drops on sugar every hour for 1 6 hours;
then every two or three hours, until well. This is an
unfailing remedy in every case. Specific.
During epidemics of La Grippe take one grain of Sulphide of
Calcium, morning and evening, and you will never have the disease.
La Grippe invariably causes abortions or miscarriages in preg-
nant women.
LEAD POISONING.
Powdered Alum, 10 grain doses mixed in mucilage, every two hours,
is a quick relief. Three days afterwards give a cathartic of
Epsom Salts. *
Opium Tincture, in 10 drop doses every two hours, is a grand spe-
cific for Lead Poisoning.
LIGHTNING STROKE.
Strip, and dash cold water upon the patient, on the chest, then
on the back ; turn about, as rapidly as you can conveniently, and roll
the body back and forth on the left side. If not successful after half
140 LIVER
an hour, wrap the patient into woolen blankets, and in a half sitting-
position, cover with fresh earth, except the face, and give a dose
of Nux Vomica. Amyl Nitrite might be tried, a few drops on a
handkerchief, held to the nose.
LIVER.
The remedy that will cure more Liver troubles than any other
is Chioru^, given in teaspoonful doses four times daily. Three bot-
tles will cure any case of Gall-stone, Jaundice, Hepatic Colic,
Enlargement of the Liver, and the tendency to abscesses.
Chelidonia Major, in minute doses, is curative of a neuralgic or
rheumatic condition of the Liver, where the pain runs up and
around the border of the right shoulder blade.
Leptandrin, in 1-20 grain two or three times daily, will clear and
open the yellow bile-duct, and thus put an end to green and
black stools.
Arsenic, in minute doses, will act upon the green bile-duct and clear
it out, and thus cure the tendency to yellow stools.
Podophyllin, 1-10 grain twice daily, acts well upon the common
bile-duct and duodenum.
Scutillaria, in minute doses frequently repeated, acts exclusively
upon the duodenum, and cures all forms of intestinal indigestion,
due to the failure of the Liver to secrete proper proportions
and quantities of bile.
Conium Maculatum, in three to five drop doses, will cure ail hyper-
trophies, or enlargements of the Liver.
LOCKJAW 141
Phytolacca, five drops of the tincture given four times daily, is the
best remedy for all enlargements or thickened conditions of
the Liver. It is absolutely, and without fail, a specific.
Sepia is a fine remedy, given in minute doses. It is a certain cure
for discolorations of the skin, known as Liver spots.
Ox Bile Pills stimulate the secretion of bile in the Liver better
and more certainly than Mercury, or any other known drug.
Nux Vomica is a good Liver stimulant, given in tincture, three
drops in water after meals.
For thickened secretions of the Liver give four drops of Chloro-
form, three or four times daily. This is good for Gall-stones, and
will cure the trouble.
Dioscorea is a specific for Liver Colic. Give four drops of the
tincture in water every half hour.
LOCKJAW.
The Tinct. of Arnica is a very choice remedy for Lockjaw where
it is due to an injury, and should be administered very early in the
case. This remedy, administered alternately with the Tinct. of
Hypericum, in minute closes, will not only prevent Lockjaw, but
will cure the same when present.
The injured parts should receive a lotion, or an application of
a 10% to 20% solution in water of Hypericum, which will aid very
greatly in curing the trouble.
Passiflora Incarnata, when given in teaspoonful doses every half
hour, will completely control Lockjaw.
142 LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA— LUMBAGO
Oil of Turpentine is very serviceable to these cases, when constantly
applied to the injured parts.
The juice of the common Onion, given in two drop doses every
hour, is the one grand specific for Lockjaw.
LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA.
In acute symptoms of Locomotor Ataxia give Tinct. of Bella-
donna, Tinct. of Aconite, and Tinct. of Gelsemium, equal parts, in
three drop doses four or five times daily., This cures the trouble.
In chronic cases, where it has progressed for more than four
months, the Hydro-Bromate of Hyoscin, 1-50 grain hypodermically
into the hip, once daily, will cure the severest cases, where they are
even accompanied with Palsy.
A very choice remedy is the following —
I> Hydro-Bromate Hyoscin gr. i
Aqua dest. 3 ix
Alcohol 3 i
M sig. Adult, five drop doses at night only.
Chronic cases should receive, once daily, a thorough rubbing
with Common Sulphur powder over the small of the back and hips.
Atropia Sulph., 1-100 grain hypodermically, is choice where there
is congested appearance of the face with Palsy of the body.
LUMBAGO.
The grand specific for Lumbago is —
I£ Collodion
Tinct. Iodine
Liquor Ammonia
M and apply over the parts affected with a camel-hair
brush.
LICE— LUPUS 143
Tinct. Iodine, applied over the back, is the most instantaneous cure
for Lumbago.
Rhus Tox., administered by mouth in minute doses, is a grand
specific.
Tinct. of Turpentine, in drop doses every 20 minutes, relieves the
pain and the patient in three hours.
LICE.
Oil of Anise, applied, is sure death to lice, and cures itch.
One of the best applications to remove Lice from the hair is
the following —
^ Decoction of Quassia
Oi
Borax
3 ij
Glycerine
o ij
M- and apply.
See "Parasites."
LUPUS.
The Tinct. of Thuja is well-nigh a specific for Lupus, given in
two drop doses every three hours for two or three days; then three
times daily, and finally morning and evening for two or three months.
This will cure most cases of Lupus.
A very excellent remedy is a hypodermic injection of a 2% solu-
tion of Corrosive Sublimate into the edges of the sore, using four or
five drops at the several sites of injection. If these remedies do
not suffice, skin grafting must be resorted to.
144 MEASLES— MILK LEG— MELANCHOLY
MEASLES.
Tinct. Pulsatilla is the great specific for Measles, given in three drop
doses every two hours.
The Tinct. of Camphor, one drop on sugar, will restore suppressed
Measles.
In nose-bleed from Measles, Ipecac, in minute doses, is very
excellent.
MILK LEG.
Place the limb affected upon a pillow or cushion in a horizontal
position; let the patient take Hamamelis, in minute doses, hourly,
and have the limb bathed every three hours with Pond's Extract of
Witch Hazel, or Hamamelis tincture mixed with Rum, equal parts,
and applied hot; keep the limb wrapped in raw cotton and covered
with oil-silk. After the acute stage has passed, bandage the leg
from toes to hip, and keep it bandaged as long as the swelling con-
tinues. If pus forms, let it out; the leg must not be used until
all of the disease has disappeared.
MELANCHOLY.
The great remedy for Melancholy is Chelidonium Major Tinc-
ture, given drop doses every two hours. This one remedy will cure
any case of Melancholy.
Special cases of Melancholy, such as arise from business reverses,
will be cured by Gold in minute doses.
Or slicIi as arises from disappointed love, by Ignatia, in minute
doses.
MOLES— MUMPS 145
Or such as arises from reflex conditions (uterine troubles), by
Macrotin, in small doses.
These last cases are usually accompanied with thoughts of sui-
cide; a good, wholesome cathartic of Calomel and Bi-carbonate of
Soda quickly relieves them.
MOLES.
Administer Sepia, in minute doses; or Thuja Tincture, in drop
doses, once in 24 hours, will usually cure these cases without any
application of caustics.
Applications may be made, by the use of a tooth-pick, of small
quantities of Acid Nitrate of Mercury, or of Glacial Acetic Acid.
In the use of either, carefully avoid the sound skin. Very large*
Moles are best removed by the knife.
MUMPS.
The true specific for ordinary Mumps is the Tinct. of Belladonna,
in drop doses, every two hours.
Jaborandi Tincture, in ordinary doses, is equally a specific for
Mumps.
The Iodide of Mercury is best where the mouth is full of water,
given in 1-30 grain doses.
Mumps shifting to the testicles or the ovaries will find speedy
relief in three drop doses of the Tinct. of Pulsatilla, every hour; and
thorough application of the Spirits of Camphor, over the parts.
It found in a man, the scrotum should be enveloped with a poultice
of White Beans, as hot as can be borne; and if found in a woman,
the poultice should be applied over the pelvis. In 30 minutes the
pain and swelling will be gone.
146 MISCARRIAGE— MALARIA— NIGHTMARE
MISCARRIAGE.
Aletris Ferinosa, given in full doses, will prevent miscarriage.
The grand specific remedy is Tinct. Sabina, in drop doses every
half hour.
Secale Cor., in minute doses, prevents miscarriage at the third month.
If expulsion has been determined upon by nature, give Ipecac,
two grains, and await the result, carefully guarding the hemorrhage.
Tinct. of Gelsemium, 10 drops in half a cup of hot water, taken in
two doses 10 minutes apart, will open the mouth of the womb
in 30 minutes, sufficient for the foetus to pass out.
If a convulsion occurs, give six drops of the Tinct. of Veratrum
Viride, in hot water, and repeat in 30 minutes. This will control
the convulsion.
See "Abortion."
MALARIA.
To guard against Malaria burn a thimbleful of Gun-powder in
your bed-room or tent, trunk and wardrobe, thus keeping your
clothing saturated with the gas. You can travel in any land, no
matter how unhealthy, without danger of sickness.
Put oil-cloth on the floor of your sleeping room or tent, and
renew the painting on it once a year.
For cure see "Ague."
NIGHTMARE.
Correct the digestive apparatus, and you will cure nightmare.
Nux Vomica, in drop doses of the tincture 30 minutes after break-
fast and dinner, in a little water, and Sulphur, minute doses at
bedtime, will cure all these cases.
When sleeping, lie upon the side and not upon the back.
NAILS 147
NAILS.
Sulphur and Hepar Sulphur, in minute doses, are excellent nail
remedies.
Silicea, in minute doses, and Fluoric Acid, in minute doses, will
cure diseased nails.
Black Hellebore, in minute doses, prevents the nails from falling off.
Ingrowing Nails.
Caution — Never cut off the corners of either the toe or finger
nails. They should be cut so that the corners will grow out over
the flesh; and if there is a tendency of ingrowing of the nails, they
should be cut in a concave, and the Oleate of Tin applied along the
back of the nail. If it becomes necessary to remove the nail of the
toe or finger, do so with as little pain as possible. Cover it with
a thin layer of Nitrate of Silver, and apply a poultice; after 24
hours this will loosen it. Continue the caustic and poultice alter-
nately until the nail can be lifted off. If the corners of the nails
produce an ulceration, apply Perchloride of Iron, in powder form,
under the free edge of it.
If ulceration occurs at the corners of the nail, lift it up and drop
a drop of hot tallow under it. This is painless and effectual.
To remove white spots from nails, give minute doses of Fluoric
Acid, or the Phosphate of Lime.
Natrum Muriaticum, in minute doses, will cure brittle and cracked
nails. Apply Oleate of Tin.
A split nail of either the finger or toe may be easily cured by
boring a hole with the point of a knife, or a shoemaker's awl, through
the half moon at the root of the nail, and behind the crack. This
can be done without pain; and as the nail grows out, the crack will
disappear.
Persons afflicted with Tuberculosis always have sharp, pointed
nails like hooks (hook-shaped), with hump backs. This invariably
holds good and true, and is absolutely diagnostic.
If the finger or toe nail is injured, or loosened, it should not be
removed, but left in place as long as possible, to act as a guide and
support for the new nail. If this is observed carefully, it will insure
a new, smooth nail.
To polish the finger nails, use Oil of Almonds and a Chamois
Skin for the purpose. The nails should never be scraped or filed.
It causes them to grow crooked, and forms unseemly lines length-
wise on the nail.
NAUSEA.
Ipecac, in very minute doses, is the grand specific for Nausea and
vomiting due to any cause. The dose must be frequently re-
peated, say every 10 or 15 minutes.
Tinct. of Iodine, in drop doses, is very excellent for Nausea.
Iris Versicolor (Blue Flag), in small doses, is a specific for Nausea,
accompanied with a peculiar headache that begins over the
eyes, or for a periodical headache occuring once every one or
two weeks.
Tinct. Colchicum, in drop doses, is curative in a Nausea accom-
panied by rheumatic pains.
White of Egg, a small quantity stirred in ice water; then stir the
remaining part of the white of the egg into a froth, and let
it float on the top of the water. Drink freely of this when
thirsty.
A Mustard Plaster applied over the region of the stomach, will
arrest Nausea immediately.
Put one drop of Tobacco juice in a glass of water, and take a
teaspoonful every minute. This will arrest vomiting in 8 or 10
minutes.
Veratrum Alb., in minute doses, will cure Nausea accompanied with
Diarrhoea.
Cocculus Indicus, in minute doses, will cure Nausea and sickness
of the stomach, caused by riding in a boat, carriage, or swing,
and is the proper remedy for habitual seasickness.
Drink iced Champagne.
For Vomiting of pregnancy, give the following —
3$ Cocaine Hydro. grs. v
Alcohol q. s. to dissolve
Water § ix
M sig. One teaspoonful before arising in the morning
and every half-hour as needed.
Podophyllum, in -J grain doses three times daily, will prevent Vomit-
ing of pregnancy.
Ingluvin, in five or ten grain doses, is the grand specific for Vomiting
of pregnancy. It will control every case without exception.
This is the Gizzard of the chicken, pulverized.
NERVOUSNESS.
Tinct. of Phosphorus, in drop doses with plenty of water, five
six times daily, is the great nerve rejuvenator.
150 NEURALGIA
Asafoetida, in 8 or 10 grain doses three times daily, is a wonderful
remedy for Nervousness.
Zinc VaL, is a great specific for nervous, fidgity people if given in
minute doses.
Sumbul Com., in teaspoonful doses, is curative of Nervousness in
exhausted women.
Cafein, in minute doses, is excellent for nervous, sleepless persons.
Strychnine, in 1-60 grain doses three or four times daily, will cure
nervous irritability.
I£ Phosphate Soda 5 i
Aqua dest. § i
M sig. Give hypodermically. This is the nearest and
latest remedy for Nervousness, and should be repeated
twice daily in the above dose.
NEURALGIA.
The best remedy for Neuralgia, is that which contains in some
form, Aconite. For instance —
IJ Nitrate Aconitine grs. iij
Neutral Hydro-Bromate of
Quinine grs. 300
Syrup of Quinine q. s.
M and divide into 200 pills.
Sig. Take one pill four or five times daily.
Another fine remedy is the following —
1$ Aconite 3 i
Belladonna 3 i
Gelsemium 3 i
Water o iv
M sig. Take one teaspoonful every two or three hours.
Plantago Major is as near a specific for Neuralgia, as can be ob-
tained, taken in 10 drop doses every hour, and apply the tincture
over the seat of pain.
(Intercostal Neuralgia.)
R
Sodii Arsenitis grs. 1-40
Ferri Lactate grs. ij
M sig. Take two or three times daily at one dose.
Apply over the seat of pain, between the ribs, the following—
I£ Veratrin grs. x
Veratrin
Vaseline
M and apply.
IJ Tinct. Gelsimium gtts. 100
Simple Syrup % iss
Water o vi
M sig. Take two teaspoonfuls two or three times daily.
This should not be given to persons having a weak
heart.
(Neuralgia of the Coccyx and Face.)
Inject 10 drops of Chloroform over the Coccyx for the Neuralgia.
Tinct. Gelsemium, in five drop doses four times daily, and apply
the following ointment.
1$ Veratrin
Vaseline
M and apply.
B
grs. x
5-i
grs. x
grs. i-120
Ammonia Muriate
Atropia
M sig. Take every two or three hours at one dose. This
is a specific for trifacial Neuralgia.
152 NOSE
(Sciatic Neuralgia.)
Of the obstinate type, requires Nitro-Glycerine, 1-50 grain doses
three times daily.
^ Tinct. Aconite Rad.
Tinct. Colchicum Sem. faa 5 i
Tinct. Belladonna
M- sig. Take six drops every six hours on sugar.
(Uterine Neuralgia.)
Cimicifuga, in minute doses, or the Fl. Ex. Jamaica Dogwood, in 10'
drop doses, bring immediate relief with natural sleep and rest.
Tinct. of Kalmia Latifolia and Tinct. of Gelsemium, in equal parts
given in 10 drop doses, cures Neuralgia in any part of the body.
(Neuralgia of the Intestines.)
Tinct. Colocynth, in minute doses every 15 minutes, cures in an hour.
If you will avoid the miseries of Neuralgia, and insure perfect
relief from it, eat a Bermuda Onion every night, chopped fine and
placed between thin slices of bread. Feed the same to your children.
It brings quiet sleep.
(Superficial Neuralgia.)
Apply Oil of Peppermint with a camel-hair brush. This affords
instant relief.
NOSE.
For foreign substances in the nose, inject warm water down the
free nostril, and the substance will come out of the other.
For inflammation of the nose, give Fluoric Acid, in minute doses.
For a watery discharge, give Arum Triphyllum, in minute doses.
This is a specific.
For a yellow, slimy discharge, give Potassium Sulph., 1-10 grain
doses.
For a red nose, give Agaricus, in minute doses, or Ichthyol, in
five drop doses and correct the digestion.
For a greenish discharge, give Sodium Phos., 1-10 grain doses.
For a thick, yellow, ropy discharge, give Bi-Carbonate of Potash,
in minute doses.
Ammonia and Onion Juice are good for a watery discharge.
Alumina, for dryness of the nose.
Cina, Antimonium Crudum, Arsenic, Gold and Onion Juice, all in
minute doses, for sore, cracked nostrils, with a tendency to
bore into the nose with the fingers.
Ambrosia, in minute doses, is a specific for a stuffed-up feeling of
the nose.
Sambucus, in minute doses, is specific for "sniffles*' of children.
NUMBNESS.
Numbness of the body or the extremities, is due to either a dis-
eased condition of the genital organs, or to a hardening of the
arteries. If the numbness is confined to one finger at a time, it is
due to Kidney trouble.
If the genital organs are the fault, the remedy must be selected
accordingly.
154 NYMPHOMANIA
One of the following will be found serviceable: Secale Cornutum,
Cannabis Indica, Hyoscyamus, Ignatia, or Cimicifuga.
If the cause is traceable to the Kidneys, Berberis Vulgaris tinc-
ture, in three drop doses two or three times daily, will cure the case.
Terebinth, and Cantharis, in minute doses, will cure many of these
cases.
If the heart or spinal cord be involved, Nux Vomica, or Digitalis,
or Glonoine, in minute doses, will be the remedies to select from.
Aconite, in drop doses of the tincture, is the proper remedy where
the arteries are the cause of the trouble. These cases should
drink large quantities of butter-milk every day.
Bryonia, in minute doses, is the proper remedy where the numbness
is confined to the fingers and toes.
NYMPHOMANIA (Sexual Insanity of Women).
Salix Nigra, in teaspoonful doses three times daily, will cure all of
these cases, unless there exists some cause of local irritation in
the vagina, requiring surgical interference.
Mono-Bromide of Camphor, in 10 grain doses, is an excellent
remedy.
Cantharis, five drops in a half glass of water, and take one tea-
spoonful every three hours, is excellent.
Fl. Ex. Cannabis Indica, and Fl. Ex. Stramonium, mixed in pro-
portions of one to three parts, and 10 drops of this in warm
water injected into the rectum three or four times daily, will
cure all cases.
Platina, in minute doses three times daily, is a very fine remedy for
old maids.
OBESITY.
The great remedy to reduce fat, is Phytoline, in 10 drop doses
before and after meals.
Drink large quantities of hot water.
Eat all things sour and nothing sweet. Abstain from breads,
fats, sugar, starches, and cold water and beer. Eat and drink any-
thing else, and you will get thin.
Put aside your selfishness and be more than ordinarily active
in making other people comfortable, rather than yourself.
OEDEMA (Dropsy).
If I were to choose two drugs that will cure more cases of
Oedema, than all others combined, I would name Apocynum Can-
nabinum, and Apis Melifica.
Tinct. of Apocynum, in five drop doses every hour or two, will cure
the severest cases of Dropsy, and especially the form known as
Cardiac Dropsy, or Anasarca. It has the value of increasing
the activity of the Kidneys and lessening the action of the
heart without any of the complications that arise out of the
administration of Digitalis.
Apis Melifica, in minute doses every hour, will cure most cases of
Dropsy of the serous tissue, such as Dropsy of the glottis, of
the eyelids, and of the belly.
Tartar Emetic is a very choice remedy for Oedema of the lung, or
hydrothorax.
156 ORCHITIS
Arsenous Acid is specific for Dropsy of the feet, and of the face,
given in minute doses every two hours.
Rhus Tox., in very minute doses every five or six hours, is ex-
cellent for Dropsy of the upper eyelids.
For Dropsy from Bright's disase, give the following —
Chloroform
3 ss
Acid Benzoici
gtts. XX
Potas. Acetate
3vi
Aqua q. s. add.
5vi
M sig. A tablespoonful in water every four hours.
See "Dropsy."
ORCHITIS (Swollen Testicle).
Tinct. Pulsatilla, in 5 drop doses every hour, will cure Orchitis in
six hours.
Tinct. Iodine, painted over the testicles, relieves very quickly.
White Beans, made into a poultice and applied hot, will cure in
16 hours.
Tinct. Camphor, applied over the scrotum, will relieve pain and
swelling in four hours.
Chronic Orchitis will be relieved by persistent 3 drop doses of
Conium tincture, and the Iodide of Potash, in five grain doses con-
tinued for several weeks.
The specific for Orchitis, is the following —
5 Tinct. Aconite Rad. 3 i
Liq. Opii Subacet. 3 iij
Ant. et Potas. Tart. gr. i
M sig. 10 drops every hour until 10 doses are taken;
then decrease the dose to one-half. Continue the dos-
age irrespective of the vomiting until 10 doses are
taken.
OS UTERI RIGID.
Tinct. Gelsemium, given in five drop doses in hot water, and re-
peated every 30 minutes until three or four doses are taken',
quickly relieves, and is a specific.
OSSIFICATION OF ARTERIES.
Buttermilk drank plentifully, will prevent as well as cure harden-
ing of the arteries.
OVARIES.
Tinct. of Pulsatilla, given in five drop doses every three or four
hours, speedily relieves inflammation of the ovaries.
LilTum Tig., in minute doses, cures when the pain is relieved by
pressure from beneath the womb, such as a tampon from the
vaginal vault.
Induration of the ovary is relieved by the administration of the
Tinct. of Phytolacca, in five drop doses three or four times daily.
158 OZAENA
Conium, in minute doses, quickly relieves such cases.
Tinct. of Iodine, applied in the vaginal vault and over the belly, is
a good remedy. Applied only once.
For Neuralgia, administer Cimicifuga, in minute doses every
hour, quickly corrects the difficulty.
Cannabis Indica, Quinine, Magnesium Phos., are all choice remedies.
For Dropsy of the ovary, Lilium Tig., Sodium Sulph., Cannabis
Indica, Bromide of Potash, or Apis Melifica, will cover all such cases.
Cystic tumors of the ovary will be cured, if not too large, by Apis
Melifica, in minute doses.
For Colic of the ovary, Colocynth tincture, in drop doses given
in hot water every 10 minutes, completely relieves in one hour.
OZAENA (Chronic Catarrh of Nose).
Ozaena being a chronic form of nose trouble, requires persistent
treatment. The best remedies are: Bichromate of Potash, in very
minute doses three times daily, where the secretions ar thick and
ropy.
Tinct. of Pulsatilla, in drop doses, where the secretion drops back
into the throat and relieved in the open air.
Apply in these cases by the use of a Bermingham Spray, Thymo-
line and water equal parts three times daily. This is the curative
treatment.
If the bones of the nose are involved, give Silicea, in minute
doses, and Hepar Sulphur in alternation.
See "Catarrh."
PAIN.
INTERNAL TREATMENT.
Give grain doses of Codeine to adults, and half grain doses to
children.
Ammonol, in 10 grain doses to adults, and 5 grain doses to children,
repeated every half-hour, relieves promptly.
Fl. Ex. Cannabis Indica, three to eight drops in water, quickly
dispels pain.
Tinct. of Colocynth, drop doses, quickly relieves the pain of colic.
Chamomilla, in minute doses, cures the pain in the stomach and
bowel of children.
Hot Water drank freely, will relieve almost every internal pain.
Tinct. of Viburnum, in teaspoonful doses, cures the pain of Dys-
menorrhea.
Inject hot coffee into the rectum, and also drink hot coffee.
EXTERNAL TREATMENT.
Aconitine, five grains in a half ounce of Vaseline, lightly applied
over the seat of pain, quickly dispels pain.
Veratrin, used in the same way, will do the same thing.
Hot Water is the great and grand elixir for external pain.
Plantago Major, for Neuralgic pain. Apply it.
160 PALATE
HYPODERMIC TREATMENT.
Morphine, i grain— Atropine, 1-200 grain, mixed. Give at one dose.
Ice-cold Water, injected at the seat of external pain, relieves in-
stantly.
INHALATION TREATMENT.
Amyl Nitrite.
Chloroform mixed with Turpentine.
Ether.
Theine.
PERSPIRATION TREATMENT.
Hot Air.
Alcohol Vapor.
Lime Sweat.
PALATE.
For relaxed palate, touch it with Muriate of Ammonia, and
gargle wtih Ginger, 15 drops of the tincture, to one ounce of water.
(Elongated Palate.)
Catechu Lozonge is the best remedy.
Gargle with Mustard seed tea.
IJ Strong Sage Tea, hot i
Pulv. Alum 3 i
Honey \ teaspoonful
M sig. Gargle four times daily.
PALSY— PEEVISHNESS— PARALYSIS 161
PALSY.
Avena Sativa (Ex. of Oats), five or ten drop doses before meals,
cures slowly.
Hyoscin, 1-100 grain hypodermically in the hip once daily, cures
in one month. Specific.
Argentum Nitricum, in minute doses, is an excellent remedy, where
the lower extremities are involved only.
Sulphate of Atropia, 1-200 grain hypodermically every day, will
cure most of these cases.
PEEVISHNESS..
Santonine. given in small doses, cures.
Phosphate of Potash, likewise.
Chamomilla for children.
PARALYSIS (Local).
Arnica, Belladonna, Camphor, Nux Vomica, Phosphorus, Argen-
tum Nitricum, Hellebore, or Sulphur are remedies to be thought
of in Paralysis.
Rub the spine three or four times daily with hot Vinegar. This
will cure paralysis of the limbs.
Gelsemium and Conium equal parts of the tincture in water, five
drop doses, are well-nigh specific remedies.
162 PARASITES— PERITONITIS
For Paralysis of the face and eyelids, give Causticum, in minute
doses.
Tinct. of Cinnamon, in officinal doses, cures Paralysis of the tongue.
Euphrasis, is the grand specific for Paralysis of the eye muscles.
PARASITES.
Oil of Anise, applied, kills lice and other parasites instantly.
Oil of Peppermint will do the same.
Coal Oil, one application destroys lice on the head, or other hairy
parts of the body.
Crab-lice may be destroyed by washing the genitals with Car-
bolic Soap.
Persian Chamomile, burned in a room, will destroy all insect life.
Sandal Wood, burned, will drive all flies and mosquitos from your
home.
PERITONITIS.
Give large doses of Epsom Salts.
Never give Morphine nor Opium.
Administer Aconite or Belladonna, in two drop doses of the
tincture every hour. This soon arrests the disease.
If due to injury, give Arnica, in minute doses frequently repeated.
Apply Turpentine Stupe poultices.
PERSPIRATION 163
In chronic suppurative, and tubercular forms, cut through the
abdomen, and wash out the cavity with a hot normal salt solution,
and administer by mouth, Silicea, in minute doses five or six times
daily. Give large doses of salts every day.
For the pain of Peritonitis, inject into the rectum, 12 or 15 grains
of Asafoetida, dissolved in an ounce of hot milk. This is magical in
its effect.
PERSPIRATION (Sweat).
For excessive perspiration, give 1-12 grain of Agaricin. This
is specific.
Jaborandi, in minute doses, is specific.
If on the hands, feet, genitals, or arm-pits, give Belladonna.
For offensive perspiration, give by mouth Silicea, in minute
doses. Arsenic, in minute doses — apply Chloral, one ounce to 16
ounces of water. Dry the parts and rub them with Sub. Nit. Bis-
muth; stockings and clothing must be changed every day.
Soak the feet of the stockings in a saturated solution of Boracic
Acid, and dry them before wearing.
Bathe the feet, arm-pits, or genitals with a solution of Potash
Nit., five grains to an ounce of water, two or three times daily.
For night sweats of Phthisis (Consumption), Agaricin, given in
1-12 grain doses, acts like magic. A grain should be given in 24
hours.
For offensive perspiration, use a germicide, such as Bi-Chloride
of Mercury, 1-50 grain by mouth; or Arsenic, 1-50 grain in the
same way.
For offensive foot-sweats, see "Feet."
164 PRURITUS
PRURITUS (Itching).
Saturated solution of Borax, applied frequently, is the -true specific
for this trouble, followed by currents of Electricity.
Oil of Tar, mixed in Lard, relieves some causes.
Quinine, rubbed into Vaseline until it is as rich as can be made and
applied, affords permanent relief.
The Lye of Wood Ashes, diluted in water to suit the sensation and
applied three times daily, cures in three days.
Administer Sulphur, in minute doses, once daily.
Linseed Oil, applied, will allay itching.
V
Oil Peppermint
gtts. XXX
Water
m
M
and apply.
3
Cocaine Mur.
grs. xxx
Lanolin
5i
M
and apply.
V
Carbolic Acid
gtts. xxx
Water
.V
M
and apply.
V
Acid Phenic
grs. xv
Tinct. Opium
5 iv
Acid Hydro-cyanic
5 iss
Glycerine
5 iv
Water
3iv
M
and apply.
PHOTOPHOBIA— POISONS 165
R Sodii Hypo Sulphitis § ss
Glycerine o ij
Water 5 vi
M sig. Use as a lotion.
1^ Hydrarg. Chlor. Cor. grs. iij
Rose Water o x
Glycerine % ij
M- sig. Apply three nights. Followed by applications of
Lanolin.
Strychnine administered in doses of 1-50 grain three times daily, is
a very choice remedy for Pruritus in any form. It must be
persisted in for one month.
Ichthyol, in Lanolin and applied, is a certain relief especially if 6
drops of Ichthyol three times daily, are taken by the mouth.
PHOTOPHOBIA.
Tinct. Belladonna, in minute doses every three or four hours, and
apply around the eyes, the Tinct. of Iodine. This is a speedy
cure.
POISONS AND THEIR ANTIDOTES.
Acids, Mineral — Chalk, Magnesia (plaster off wall in emergency),
solution of Carbonate of Soda, Emollient drinks, Fixed Oils.
Acid, Carbolic — Any soluble Sulphate, such as Magnesia, Soap,
Vinegar is best in ounce doses.
Acid, Hydrocyanic — Fresh air and artificial respiration, with cold
effusion. Ammonia by inhalation and intravenously in vein of
leg.
166 POISONS AND THEIR ANTIDOTES
Aconite — Emetics, stimulants, external and internal — keep up ex-
ternal heat, keep flat on the back, Digitalis hypodermically.
Antimony Tart — Vegetable acids, such as Tannic Acid, and Catechu.
Arsenic — Freshly precipitated hydrated sesquioxide of Iron, made
by adding Magnesia to any Iron solution.
Atropia — Same as Belladonna.
Belladonna — Emetics, Mustard flour in water. Give Physostigma or
Pilocarpine. Cold to the head.
Cantharides — Emetics, Emollient drinks, Opiates by mouth and
rectum, large draughts of water to flush the Kidneys, Flax-
seed tea.
Chlorine Water — Albumen, white of egg — milk — flour.
Chloroform — Fresh air — artificial respiration (inclining head down,
pull tongue forward), Brandy and Ammonia intravenously in
the leg — the hypodermic injection of 1-30 grain of Strychnine —
Nitro-Glycerine, 1-100 grain.
Colchicum — Emetics, followed by demulcent drinks. If coma is
present, give Brandy — Ammonia — Coffee. Opium in large
doses. Keep up external heat.
Conium — Emetics, followed by stimulants external and internal.
Copper Sulph. — Yellow Prussiate of Potash, or Soap.
Corrosive Sublimate — Albumen, white of egg (4 grains of sublimate
require white of one egg), flour, milk. Equal parts of Lime
water and milk. Emetics, or evacute the stomach by a pump.
Croton Oil — Emetics; wash out the stomach, and follow by muci A
laginous fluids, containing Opium.
POISONS AND THEIR ANTIDOTES 167
i
Digitalis — Recumbent posture after emetics. Emetics and Opium;
give Tinct. of Aconite, four drops.
Elaterium — Demulcent drinks, an enema of Opium and external
heat. Slippery-elm tea.
Hyoscyamus — Stomach pump, emetics, stimulants, externally and
internally, Physostigma and Pilocarpine,
Illuminating Gas — Ammonia, hypodermic injections of Nitro-Gly-
cerine are recommended by Kloman. Plenty of air.
Iodine — Emetics and demulcent drinks, starch and flour diffused in
water, Opium and external heat.
Lead Salts — Any soluble Sulphate, either Magnesia or Soda, suc-
ceeded by emetics, and afterward by Opium and Milk.
Lead Poison — Alum, 10 grains in mucilagenous liquids, every two
hours.
Lobelia — Stimulants, externally and internally, external heat.
Morphine — Same as Opium.
Nux Vomica — Chloroform, Nitrite of Amyl, Tobacco in the rectum.
Opium — Atropine hypodermically, until respirations number eight
per minute. Stomach pump, stimulants, externally, and inter-
nally, Brandy and Coffee, Ammonia to the nostrils, Galvanic
shocks, compelling to move around, artificial respirations, elec-
tric brush. Permanganate of Potash, four grains hypoder-
mically.
Oxalic Acid — Lime, not Potash nor Soda.
168 PILES
Phosphorus — Sulphate of Copper in emetic doses, as chemical anti-
dote. No oils, emetics or purgatives.
Potash and Soda Salts — Dilute Acetic Acid, Citric Acid, Lemon
juice, Fixed Oils, demulcents, Vinegar.
Rhus Tox. (Poison Ivy) — Annacardium, drop doses of the* tincture.
Apply hot soap-suds, strong solution of Bi-Carbonate of Soda>
Tinct. of Verbena Hystata. Apply one part Boro-Glyceride and
three parts Oil Sassafras, mix and paint every four hours.
Silver Nitrate — Solution of common salt and demulcent drinks,
Emetics.
Stramonium — Same as Belladonna.
Strychnia — Same as Nux Vomica.
Tobacco — Strychnine, Emetics, Stimulants, External heat.
Zinc Salts — Carbonate of Soda, Emetics, Warm demulcent drinks.
General Antidote for unknown poisons — Mix in water Calcined
Magnesia, wood Charcoal, and Hydrated Oxide of Iron to-
gether, without regard to special quantities, and drink freely.
PILES.
The nearest specific for Piles, is Aesculus Hippo. (Horse Chest-
nut) tincture, given as follows: Put 10 drops in a half glass of
water, and take a teaspoonful four or five times daily. Make oint-
ment as follows —
I* Ex. Aesculus Hippo. 3 ij
Vaseline o l
M sig. Half teaspoonful through a glass syringe into the
rectum morning and evening. This will cure falling
of the bowel and piles.
- PILES 169
A good home remedy for Piles, is Dry Mullein Leaves burned in
a chamber-vessel, sprinkling some pulverized Resin upon the leaves,
and have the patient sit over the vessel for 10 minutes twice daily.
Oxide of Zinc Ointment, used by a small glass syringe, twice daily,
is very excellent.
For inflamed protruding Piles, apply a poultice of Plantain,
pounded to a pulp and applied cold and raw; this relieves the pain
instantly, and brings the cure.
Tinct. Collinsonia (Stone Fruit), given in drop doses four or five
times daily, will cure as speedily as Horse Chestnut, and espe-
cially the Piles of constipated women.
R
Nux Vomica Pulv.
grs. xx
Secale Cornutum
grs. xxx
Solid Ex. Belladonna
oij
Solid Ex. Conium
3i
Oil of Tar
5ss
Vaseline add.
o vi
M sig. Use a teaspoonful through a syringe after stool.
Tinct. of Aloes, five drops in a halt glass of water; take a teaspoonful
every two or three hours. This cures protruding Piles.
SURGICAL TREATMENT.
If the Piles are very large, a ligature is the best method of re-
moval. If small and accompanied by fissures or cracks in the rec-
tum, give the patient Ether, and thoroughly stretch the rectum.
This will cure the case.
!70 PLEURISY
Make a Cerate of the following —
5 Solid Ex. Phytolacca 3 i
Solid Ex. Belladonna grs. x
Solid Ex. Conium grs. xv
Lard g i
M and apply night and morning.
Peal a potato and cut it round and smooth the size of the rectum.
Then inject into it with a hypodermic syringe 5 or 6 drops of the
tincture of Horse Chestnut, and introduce it into the rectum. The
remedy will be absorbed and cure the Piles. Very choice treatment.
PLEURISY.
Tinct. of Aconite and Tinct. of Bryonia, given in drop doses alter-
nately every hour, quickly cures the patient.
Tinct. of Causticum, one to three drops in a wineglass of water
every two or three hours, is nearly specific for Pleurisy.
Apis Melifica, in minute doses, and Tinct. of Canthatis, in minute
doses, alternately every two hours, will remove all effusions
that may occur in the pleural cavity.
SURGICAL TREATMENT.
Put a wide, adhesive strap over the ribs to prevent motion and
to produce compression.
Keep the parts warm with a dry, hot flannel.
If pus forms, remove a portion of rib and insert a drainage tube,
and wash the cavity with a solution of Bi-Borate of Soda every
day twice.
PNEUMONIA— POLYURIA lil
PNEUMONIA (Lung Fever).
Fl. Ex. of Veratrum Viride, in drop doses every hour, will cure all
cases of Pneumonia that are acute.
Tartar Emetic, in minute doses, should be given twice daily, as soon
as abundant secretion occurs; but continue throughout the case
Veratrum Viride.
Rhus Tox. is very choice, in minute doses, two or three times daily,
for the rusty expectoration.
The case may find comfort in the use of a tight flannel bandage
extending from armpits to below the ribs. Do not employ moist
or wet poultices.
POLYPUS.
Silicea, in minute closes, is specific for Polypus.
Carbonate of Lime is very choice.
Tenerium is a specific for nasal Polypus.
SURGICAL TREATMENT.
Seize the Polypus with a pair of rat-tooth forceps, and twist it
off. The bleeding may be arrested by an application of Per Sul-
phate of Iron.
POLYURIA (Excessive Urine).
The best remedy is Nitrate of Uranium, in one-half grain doses
two or three times daily.
If due to nervous conditions, Valeriana or Ignatia will relieve
the case.
172 POTT'S DISEASE— PROCTITIS
POTT'S DISEASE (Rickets).
Silicea, in minute doses, and Phosphate of Lime, in minute doses,
with good, wholesome food, will usually improve the case.
SURGICAL TREATMENT.
A properly adjusted brace from armpit to hip-point, and lifting
the weight of the body from the spine, is very essential, and aids
materially in supporting the spine.
POULTICES.
Cabbage, Onions, or Plantain, are the best poultices for inflamma-
tions of all kinds.
Cloths wrung out of hot water in which potatoes have been
boiled, make a very useful poultice.
Bread soaked in hot milk — Linseed Meal — Hot Salt bags — Hot
plates wrapped in flannel — Flannel wrung out of hot Turpentine
water; all of these make excellent poultices.
Tobacco poultice may be used upon any part of the body except
the abdomen. It must be left on the part only a few minutes
at a time, and must not be applied to open sores.
PROCTITIS.
(Inflammation of the Rectum.)
Magnesium Phos. and Ferrum Phos., both in minute doses, will
generally relieve these cases.
PROSTATE GLAND 173
Inject high up into the rectum, Fl. Ex. Rhatany, diluted well
in water, will cure these cases in a short time.
Tinct. of Collinsonia, in one or two drop doses four or five times
daily, will cure women thus afflicted.
See "Bowel."
PROSTATE GLAND.
Tinct. of Thuja, in drop doses, is a specific for enlarged Prostrate.
Sanmetto, in teaspoonful doses three times daily, is a very choice
remedy.
Tinct. of Phytolacca, in three drop doses, quickly relieves the case.
If there is difficulty in passing urine, have the patient fill the
lungs as full of air as possible, and the urine will flow freely as the
air or breath is expelled.
A good method, in some cases, to expand the urethra, is to have
the patient draw the fore-skin over the head of the penis, holding it
firmly between the thumb and finger, and slowly filling or destend-
ing with urine. This will dilate the urethra as far back as the
bladder, and is known as hydraulic dilation.
Castration of men past 50 years of age is very much preferable
to the use of the cathater, which should be avoided until every other
method fails.
Place the penis into a tumbler of hot water, and allow the patient
to urinate while the penis is in the hot water. This will be done
painlessly and freely.
Pruritus of the anus will often be the evidence of disease of the
prostate.
174 PROSTRATION— PUSTULES
PROSTRATION.
Hot milk with a pinch of salt is the true remedy for prostration
from any cause whatever, except from heat, and then give Nitro-
Glycerine in drop doses; or Spirits of Ammonia or Coffee are to
be given as stimulants.
PROUD FLESH.
Sanguinaria Root, pulverized and applied, removes at once.
Chloride of Zinc and Flour, equal parts; add water enough to make
a paste, and apply. This quickly removes proud flesh.
Apply strong Tinct. of Thuja three times daily for a week or two;
sometimes the excrescence falls off in two or three days. Thuja,
in officinal doses, may be taken at the same time.
PTERYGIUM.
Silicea, in minute doses, is a specific.
Sulphur, in minute doses, also cures Pterygium.
PTYALISM (Salivation).
Tinct. of Blue Flag, in minute doses, cures.
Mercurius Vivus, in 1-100 grain dose, will cure, unless caused by
Mercury. If so. Nitric Acid, in minute doses, will cure.
PUSTULES.
Hepar Sulphur (Calcium Sulphuret) in minute doses.
Silicea for large pustules, in minute doses.
Tartar Emetic, in minute doses, for pustules resembling small-pox.
PYAEMIA— RESPIRATION 175
PYAEMIA (Pus Poisoning).
Arsenic, given in three or five drop doses every four hours, is the
true specific.
Quinine Sulph., in two grain doses, should accompany the adminis-
tration of Arsenic.
Tinct. of Baptisia, in five drop doses, is a remedy to be relied upon
at all times for infections.
RANULA (Cyst in Duct of the Mouth).
Fl. Ex. Golden Seal, in water, used as a wash and swallowed in
8 drop doses, cures.
QUINSY (Suppurating Tonsils).
Hepar Sulphur (Calcium Sulphuret) and Silicea, both given in
minute doses alternately every two hours, quickly relieves.
Calcium Iodide, given in ^ grain doses, is very choice. ,
Baryta Iodide, in minute doses, cures.
RESPIRATION (Breathing).
Arsenic and Apis Melifica, in minute doses,, cures difficult respiration.
Bryonia and Carbonate of Potash, both in minute doses alternately,
cures painful respiration.
Tartar Emetic and Squilla. both in minute doses, cures wheezing,
phlegmy respiration.
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I
Ipecac and Opium, in minute doses, cures snoring respiration.
Yeratrum Viride, in drop doses, cures slow respiration.
Cictus Virosa cures suspended respiration.
Grindelia Rubusta, in minute doses, where the patient stops breath-
ing when he falls asleep.
RESTLESSNESS.
Tinct. Belladonna, for persons who are sleepy but cannot go to sleep.
Coffee Crudum, in minute doses, for irritable, restless, wide-awake
persons.
Rhus Tox., in minute doses, where the patient is caused to change
the position frequently to obtain rest.
Arsenous Acid, in minute doses, where the person is restless after
midnight.
Cina, in minute doses, for restless children.
Passirlora Incarnata, teaspoonful doses 3 times daily, is unequaled.
RICKETS.
The administration of Carbonate or Phosphate of Lime, in minute
doses, is the true remedy.
Silicea, in minute doses frequently repeated, should be given if
suppurating conditions are present.
LEUCORRHEA 113
If from cessation of lochia, Bryonia alb., in minute doses fre-
quently given, will correct the trouble.
If the malady is due to specific causes, the anti-specific treatment
must ensue by the administration of Naphthalin, in grain doses
mixed in sugar of milk, and given four times daily.
Tinct. Gelsemium, in five drop doses in hot water five or six times
daily, will aid very much in the cure.
Intra-uterine injections of sterilized blood serum, or sterilized
Bovinine, through a recurrent cathater, is a method and cure which
I have devised for these cases of specific Metritis, and yields the
speediest results of any known method. These injections are given
twice daily and hot.
Vaginal injections of the Bromide of Potash, one drachm to the
pint of water, in cases of so-called irritable uterus, diffuse pelvic pains,
and hysterical Neurosis in various parts of the body, are said to be
very valuable.
I£ Hydrarg. Bi-Chlor. grs. ij
Cretae Prep. . 3 viss
Tragacanth grs. xxiv
Glycerine and water q. s.
M et fiat 50 suppositories.
Sig. After washing the vagina, place one of these in
the vagina every night. This is an unfailing remedy
for Endo-metritis.
LEUCORRHEA.
Leucorrhea may be either acute or chronic. Acute forms of Leu-
corrhea may arise from mal-position of the uterus, Endo-metritis,
from acute febril diseases, taking cold, poorly nourished system, or
chemical irritation. It may arise from the body or the cervix of
the womb, due to laceration, or from the vaginal vault. The dis-
charge from the body of the womb is usually found very consistent:
114 LEUCORRHEA
In Lumps, chunks or plugs. Its color is glairry. Its odor offensive
and purulent. The secretion from the cervix is usually milky and
viscid. The reaction from both the discharges is alkaline. The
former containing pavement epithelial cells, and the latter con-
taining columnar epithelial cells. While the discharge from the
vagina is curdy, cheesy, acid and corrosive, containing tessilated and
squamous epithelial cells. Reaction Acid. If an Acid Leucorrhea
exists, it may be Gonorrheal, in which case a microscope will reveal
gonnococcus. The curative means will depend entirely upon the
cause of the difficulty. Remove the cause and the discharge ceases.
If from Laceration of the cervix, repair the injury without delay, as
local applications will be of no permanent service whatever — a mis-
take too often indulged in by physicians, to the great detriment,
disappointment and financial loss of the patient. If the discharge
arises from the cavity of the uterus, an intra-uterine application may
be necessary, particularly so in the chronic forms and in which case
granular masses will be found covering the endo-metrium. These
latter must be removed by the currette.
CAUTION.
Never make intra-uterine applications of Carbolic Acfd, unless
pure, and never make intra-uterine applications of any liquid, unless
through a recurrent cathater, or previous dilatation of the cervical
neck of the womb. Intra-uterine applications of Tinct. of Iodine, or
Pinus Canadensis, or corrosive Sublimate, hot, will be of great
service in the treatment oi the case. Also Chloride Tinct. of Iron in
cases due to relaxation of the body of the womb, or the vaginal walls.
TREATMENT.
Iodide of Mercury, if the discharge is worse at night.
Iodide of Iron, if due to general loss of vitality.
LEUCORRHEA 115
Iodide of Arsenic, if offensive and corrosive. Also Kreosotum.
Iodine, if accompanied by a loss of flesh while the appetite remains
good.
Helonin, if the patient is of a hysterical type with depression of
spirits.
Belladonna, in the acute form and accompanied by sterility.
Aletris Cordial may be made by mixing together, one drachm of
the Tinct. of Aletris and four ounces of Sherry Wine, giving one
teaspoonful three times daily. This applies particularly to Leu-
corrhea due to mal-position of the womb, or to ladies broken
down or worn out by womb trouble and loss of appetite.
Sulphite of Calcium, ^ grain three times daily.
Sulphate of Iron, in ordinary doses and applied to the womb, is one
of the best remedies for Leucorrhea due to a relaxed condition
of the womb and vagina.
VAGINAL LOTIONS.
For Leucorrhea, Blennorrhea, relaxed conditions of the Mucus
Membrane, Excoriations and Irritations.
1$ Tinct. Geranium Maculatum § ij
Hamamelis Virginiana § ij
Tinct. Hydrastis Canadensis % ss
Aquae Bullientis 5 xiss
M et filter.
Sig. Inject freely night and morning.
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^ Tinct. Geranium Maculatum 3 ij
Tinct. Iris Florentine § ss
Tinct. Sodae Boras 3 i
Aquae Bullientis § viij
M et filter sig. As often as required.
For Fetor —
^ Tinct. Ouercus alba. % ij
Tinct. Baptisia Tinctoria § i
Tinct. Ligusticum Leuisticum 5 i
Tinct. Carbolic Acid 3 ss
Aqua Bullientis 5 xij
M et filter.
Sig. To be used freely two or three times daily.
Long experience and observation have led me to the conclusion
that the majority of female complaints are due to acid conditions
of the fluids of the body, especially of the mucus membrane, and
that this acid state should be neutralized as the first step in all suc-
cessful treatment. Therefore, anti-acids should be given for at least
one week before local treatments are employed.
ABDOMINAL TUMORS.
When an abdominal tumor is discovered, the first question that
presents itself, is: What is it? All abdominal tumors are either
fibrous, fibro-cystic, or cystic.
Fibroids may be found extra-uterine, inter-uterine (between the
muscular layers of the womb), or intra-uterine. They grow very
slowly and painlessly and are usually of small size. Their presence
is always indicated where severe hemorrhages and excessive flowing
from the womb occurs. This is diagnostic. They are hard and
nodular like the formation of a potato. There may be several of
these growths present at the same time.
ABDOMINAL TUMORS 11?
TREATMENT.
The remedy, is Secale Cornutum or Ustilago, in long continued
doses covering many months.
The Chloride of Ammonia, in 10 grain doses administered for a long
time, in connection with the administration of Ergot, in half-
teaspoonful doses, is said to have cured these cases where the
tumor is of small size.
Fl. Ex. Hydrastis, in eight drop doses three times daily, has cured
a few of these cases in my practice where Ergot and Ammonia
failed.
If the tumor is of large size and the hemorrhages are dangerous,
medicine should not be administered for their removal, as sloughing
is liable to occur where Ergot is administered in large and continued
doses. The removal of large Fibroid Growths, can be more safely
accomplished and with better results with the knife, or by the
surgeon.
Fibro-Cystic tumors are to be dealt with after the same manner as
the foregoing.
Cystic Tumors. If the growth is below the umbilicus and in the
median line, and is three or more years old, it is uterine, and
painless, and may be a Fibroid. If so it will be accompanied by
severe hemorrhages. If it is three years old, and ascends above
the umbilicus and remains stationary, while the patient lies upon
either side, it is Ovarian and, therefore, cystic, or Sarcomatous.
If it is malignant, there will exist a dropsy of the belly and of
the feet, and the urea passed during any 24 hours, will be about
180 grains or three drachms, which is very much below the
normal. This is adsolutely diagnostic of Malignant growths
in the abdomen of women. There may be found in a woman a
118 ABDOMINAL TUMORS
cyst of the broad-ligament, encysted peritoneal dropsy, and a
cyst of the ovary, all of which contain an opelescent fluid. How
shall we distinguish the difference? The first does not con-
tain albumin. The second does contain albumin, and the
third contains both albumin and par-albumin. Obtain a speci-
men of the fluid by aspiration, and submit it to a test for albu-
min, and if it is present, the cyst is either of the second or third
variety. Now add an excess of Acetic Acid to the specimen,
and if it clears up, it is en-cysted peritoneal dropsy. If it does
not clear up, it is a cyst of the ovary. This is absolutely
diagnostic.
If the tumor is suspected as complicated with pregnancy, the
pulse of the patient will remain the same in the three positions:
standing — sitting — and lying. This is likewise diagnostic. With a
change of color in the breast and the stationary character of the
pulse, and the patient is not hemorrhoidal, and the uterus is of the
egg-plant color, purple, and the lips of the womb are soft like the
lips of the mouth, the tumor is pregnancy.
The uterine murmur is not a reliable sign of pregnancy, as it
may exist in Fibroid tumors and Aneurism of the aorta.
TREATMENT.
Ovarian cysts are said to have been cured by the administration
of minute doses of Apis Melifica. This is not true of cysts that have
attained any considerable size.
Surgical pocedure is the proper one for the removal of these
growths.
Encysted peritoneal dropsy may be removed by several and
repeated aspirations.
So also may a cyst of the broad-ligament be cured by the same
method.
HEADACHE 119
However, the surgical removal of a broad-ligament is the best
procedure.
HEADACHE.
Headache may be either congestive and local, or reflex. Con-
gestive is due to local causes, and reflex may be due to many causes,
viz. : Rectal diseases — uterine — ovarian — tubal — cystic — vaginal —
gastric — hepatic — splenic — in fact a reflex headache may have its
origin from any of the abdominal or pelvic viscera. Headache being
such a common malady, demands the attention of the physician more
frequently than any other with which he meets. The duty of every
physician, is to relieve this suffering in the quickest way possible,
palliatively. The curative treatment depends entirely upon the cause.
There is no sense in giving medicine to patients whose headache
arises from surgical diseases of the pelvis, such as Piles, Fissures,
Fistulas, Pappilae, Rectal Abscesses, Displacements of the Womb,
or any mal-position of Genito-urinary Organs. These must be
treated surgically as well as medicinally.
REMEDIES (Palliative).
Ammonol, ten grain doses, repeat in 30 minutes. This is the first
great remedy.
Potassium Iodide, two grains in a half glass of water, sip slowly,
relieves in 15 minutes.
Tinct Melilotus, one drop, relieves in 5 minutes.
REMEDIES (Curative).
Congestive Headache.
Belladonna, in minute doses three times daily, for a throbbing head-
ache, red watery eyes which cannot bear light.
120 HEADACHE
Gelsemium, in minute doses, when the pain is like a band or hoop
around the head.
Bryonia, in minute doses, for morning headache worse on motion,
and passing from the forehead backward over the head.
Nitro-Glycerine, in minute doses, for throbbing, pulsating headache
as if the head would burst. Involving the jaws and teeth, and
made worse by the hot sun and by motion.
Reflex Headache.
Nervous — Tinct. of Sumbul, in five drop doses, in general nervous
debility.
Spigelia, in minute doses, where the heart is involved.
Nux Vomica, in minute doses, where the head feels too big.
Ignatia, in minute doses, as if a nail were driven into the head.
Glonoine, in very minute doses, where the trifacial nerve is involved.
Sepia, in minute doses, where uterine diseases exist.
Sick Headache.
Iris (Blue Flag), in minute doses, where it begins over the eyes
accompanied with vomiting.
Ipecac, in very minute doses, where nausea prevails.
Tinct. Cocculus Indicus, three drops, three times daily, where it is
due to the motion of a carriage, car, swing, or a boat.
Peach Pits, dried, then cracked and eat three or four kernels daily.
This is very choice for chronic forms.
HEART 121
Epiphegus Virginiana, in minute doses, one dose every 20 minutes,
is an absolute specific for sick headache.
Zinc Val., in minute doses, for fidgity feeling of the feet.
Cimicifuga, in minute doses, where the uterus is involved.
Cannabis Indica, in minute doses, with a sense of pressure on top
of the head.
Phosphate of Iron, in minute doses, and Chionanthus, in minute
doses three times daily, are also good remedies.
Headache in General.
Put the hands in cold water. This relieves immediately.
1$ Caffein Citrate ^ g. rs xx
Ammonium Carb.
Elixir Guaranae 3 i
M sig. Teaspoonful every hour until pain is relieved.
HEART.
Aconite, in minute doses, for pain in the heart affecting the left arm.
Acetate of Copper, in minute doses, oppression, and rigid spasm.
Cimicifuga, in minute doses, irregular heart action reflex from
uterine trouble.
Cactus Grandiflora, in minute doses, where the heart feels as if bound
by a grasping hand.
Digitalis, in minute doses, where the pulse is very small and irreg-
ular, and sand is in the urine.
Kalmia Latifolia, in minute doses, following rheumatism, or where
the heart itself is affected with rheumatism.
122 HEART
m
Crotalas 4x Trit. (Snake Poison), where there are sharp stinging-
pains in the heart.
Phos. of Iron, three grains four times daily, in Anaemic troubles.
Moschus Tincture, one drop every two or three hours, in hysterical
heart.
Xitro-Glycerine, 1-200 grain, as a heart stimulant.
Hyoscyamus, in minute doses, for nervous palpitation.
Lilium Tig., in minute doses, where the heart feels as if it were
pressed between two hard substances.
There is no remedy in the catalogue of medicines which yields
such universal results in the various heart affections as Apocynum
Cannabinum. It combines all the benefits of Digitalis without the
cumulative effects. Give it in all heart diseases from two to five
drop doses of the fluid extract every three or five hours. This
remedy is excellent in all forms of Dropsy also.
Heart Tonic —
^ Tinct. Strophanthus
Tinct. Digitalis ~aa o ss
Tinct. Convalaria
Syrup simple add. o * v
M sig. Teaspoonful every four or five hours.
Dropsy with Heart Trouble —
IJ Blue Mass grs. xxv
Solid Ex. Digitalis grs. xv
Pulv. Gamboge grs. vij
Pulv. Squilla grs. vij
M et fiat— 45 pills.
Sig. Three every two hours until bowels move freely.
Repeat every 24 hours as the case requires.
HEARTBURN— HICCOUGH— HYSTERIA 123
HEARTBURN (Water-Brash).
Tinct. Cinnamon, in minute doses.
Chalk, in three grain doses.
Nux Vomica, in grain doses.
Lactopeptin, ten to twenty grains.
Salt, one-half teaspoonful in a little cold water, affords instant relief.
Argentum Nitricum, in minute doses, cures heartburn.
Arsenic, in minute doses, is unexcelled.
HICCOUGH (Spasms of the Diaphragm).
The best method of curing hiccough instantly is by compression
of the phrenic nerve, which passes down the neck upon either side
of the wind-pipe, and is easily compressed inside of the inner end
of the clavicle, or collar-bone, holding the thumbs or fingers tightly
at this point of the neck. This will soon stop hiccough.
Paint the sides of the neck with the Tinct. Iodine.
Quinine, ten grains, is a sure cure; one dose only.
Snuff Pepper, or anything that will produce sneezing, will stop
hiccough.
HYSTERIA.
Dashing cold water into the face of the patient will revive him
at once.
Asafoetida, five grains in hot milk given as an injection into the
bowel two or three times daily, will cure Hysteria.
Cimicifuga, in minute doses, at the change of life, or irregular
monthly.
124 HEAT RASH— HIVES
Chloride of Gold, in minute doses, where melancholy exists, or a
disposition to commit suicide.
Zinc Val., mixed in ten times its weight with sugar of milk and
ground together thoroughly, and give three grains three or
four times daily, cures.
Tmct. Ignatia, in drop doses, where the Hysteria is due to disap-
pointed love, or grief of any kind; this will speedily cure.
Give Hysterical patients Sumbul Cordial, made of Sumbul tinc-
ture, two drachms, and the best Sherry Wine, four ounces. Give
a teaspoonful three times daily.
HEAT RASH.
(Prickly Heat.)
Tinct. of Nettle Weed (Urtica Urens), is the sheet anchor for Nettle
Rash or Heat Rash. Give drop doses every two or three hours.
Tinct. of Rumex Crisp (Yellow Dock), in 10 drop doses in water,
is a specific.
HIVES.
Carb. Ammonia, in two grain doses, is a certain cure.
Dulcamara, in minute doses, where hives are due to living or work-
ing in damp places.
Chloral Hydrate, in grain doses, cures without one failure.
The sheet anchor for hives is : Six honey bees dropped alive into
four ounces of Alcohol, and allowed to stand 24 hours; then filter
the liquid through fine cheese cloth, and take five drops in water
every two or three hours. This is an absolute cure for all forms
of hives.
HORNIA— HYDROPHOBIA 125
Salicylate of Soda, in 15 grain doses, every two hours until four
doses have been taken. This is likewise a certain relief.
Quinine, in four grain doses after meals, is curative of hives. A
salve made of Quinine and Vaseline will stop the itching of
hives when applied. So will vinegar.
Vinegar, in tablespoonful doses three or four times daily, will cure
when all else fails.
HERNIA (Rupture).
Seize the patient by the feet and turn him wrong end up; hold
in this position for a few minutes, and the bowel will go back to
its place.
Place the patient into a hot bath for 20 or 30 minutes, and the
rupture may be reduced very readily.
Apply Ether on cotton for 15 or 20 minutes, and success may
result.
Give the patient cupful after cupful of hot coffee, and bathe the
parts with the same. Pretty soon the gas will escape and the bowel
will go back into its place, after the hips have been elevated. If
these fail, call in the surgeon, and proceed at once to operate.
HYDROPHOBIA.
Tinct. Belladonna, five drop doses every hour or two. Keep the
patient under its influence for weeks. If spasms set in, give
ten drop doses. Keep up a free perspiration by the use of the
Tinct. of Jaborandi, hypodermically.
Apply Slake Lime plentifully to the parts, and renew as often as
the Lime becomes green; then bathe the parts with hot Vinegar,
wipe perfectly dry, and cauterize with Nitric Acid. This last
treatment is preventive of Hydrophobia.
126 HOMESICKNESS— HAY FEVER
The remedy that never fails, in the case of a mad-dog bite, is to
procure a half dozen fowls, pluck the feathers from the fleshy part
of one, and tear off the skin of the part and apply the raw surface
to the bite; the fowl will die in ten seconds, the second in two min-
utes, the third in six minutes, the fourth in ten minutes, the fifth
will become giddy, but will not die. The poison is extracted — the
patient is saved.
HOMESICKNESS.
Acetate of Copper, in minute doses three times daily.
Phosphoric Acid, in minute doses every three or four hours.
Hydro-Bromate of Hyoscin, in 1-50 grain doses three times daily,
is the specific for Homesickness.
HYDROCELE (Water in the Scrotum).
Let cold'water run upon the parts two or three times daily.
Apis Melifica, in minute doses, is the remedy for Hydrocele.
HYDROCEPHALUS (Water on the Brain).
Tinct. Phosphorus, in drop doses in water three times daily, keeping
the child in a lying position, with the body and limbs warm.
Zinc Phos., in minute doses three times daily.
Apis Melifica, in minute doses every three or four hours, is quite
curative.
HAY FEVER.
Naphthalin, mixed with sugar of milk one part to twenty parts, and
give three grains every hour during the day. This is a posi-
tive cure.
HIGH iEMPERATURE— HAIR 127
Insert dry absorbent cotton so as to fill pretty nearly the cavity
of the nose; renew it twice daily, and in a few days the patient is
well. If the cotton is first soaked in Vinegar and then dried, it
acts better.
Tinct. Sabadilla, in two drop doses four times daily, cures in a week.
Nitrate of Sanguinaria, in minute doses, is a sheet anchor.
Use Marchand's Hydrozone as a preventive.
See "Asthma."
HIGH TEMPERATURE.
Ammonol, in ten grain doses, and repeat in an hour.
Tinct. Aconite, in two drop doses every hour or two.
Tinct. Veratrum Viride, in two drop doses every hour or two.
Application of Alcohol to the surfaces.
Cold Bath.
In all cases of high temperature, from inflammatory causes, be
careful not to reduce the temperature down to the normal, as tem-
perature aids in the elimination of the disease; therefore, it should
never be reduced to the normal point too quickly.
HAIR.
I will state as a theory that which I believe will be demonstrated
to be tenable; namely, that premature baldness and loss of hair in
men are due largely to overindulgence in sexuality.
Heredity and diseased conditions of the scalp will account for
loss of hair in some cases, but such as are due to heredity may be
traced directly to excess in sexuality. The testimony is, that those
128 HAIR
suffering from overworked sexual organs complain of a sore, tender
feeling or excessive itching over the top of the head and at the
hair-roots, and following overindulgence the hair is lost in large
quantities. In woman the loss is not so great, and the reasons are
apparent at first thought. The loss of vital fluids is not great in
woman. In men of the above characteristics the loss of hair is
not confined to the scalp, but is noticeable over the whole body;
so that the remedy is, "cease excess." The drug best adapted for
these cases is Tincture of China off., taken in 5 drop doses three
times daily. With these directions I have cured many cases. The
following application should be made to the scalp —
I> Eau de Cologne § vij
Aqua Ammonia o ss
Tinct. Cantharis gtts. x
Oil Rose Mary gtts. xxiv
M sig. Apply to the roots of the hair. This prevents its
falling and inspires its growth.
The sheet anchor for falling hair and diseases of the scalp is —
I£ Corrosive Sublimate grs. v
Eau de Cologne o vn J
Tinct. Cantharis gtts. xv
Castor Oil 3 i
M sig. Apply once daily.
A good old-fashioned remedy for falling hair is Onion juice,
applied twice weekly.
For baldness apply an emulsion made of Black Oats, by boiling
and grinding the same, shells and all; strain through a cheese cloth
and dilute the liquid until it is the consistency of cream. Apply
this night and morning to the scalp.
Administer by the mouth, in small doses, Hepar Sulphur, where
a pustular or papular eruption exists.
SLEEP 133
SLEEP.
Passiflora Incarnata, in teaspoonful doses, will induce quiet, natural,
restful sleep.
Belladonna, in minute doses, when sleepy and cannot go to sleep.
Coffee, in minute doses, produces sleep in persons who are "wide
awake."
Camphor, one drop in water and taken on going to bed, will induce
sleep.
The Mono-Bromide of Camphor, in two grain doses, acts like a
charm.
To insure a good night's rest, rub the body all over with a
coarse towel or flesh brush. This will usually induce quiet sleep.
Pressure upon the anterior frontanel of an infant will directly
induce sleep.
Nitre, burned in the room on going to bed, will produce quiet sleep
to persons troubled with Asthma or Cough.
Light eating before retiring is often good. Sleeplessness is-
often caused by a starved brain.
Raising the foot of the bed and sleeping with the head low will
keep an extra blood supply in the brain; this will nourish and
gratify the brain, and induce restful sleep.
Grendelia Rub., in minute doses, for cessation of breathing after
falling asleep.
194 SMALL POX
SMALL POX.
The true remedy for Small Pox is Tartar Emetic, in minute
doses. Two grains of the powder put into a glass of water, and'
give the patient throughout the entire case a teaspoonful every five
hours. Make the solution fresh thus every day.
Baptisia Tincture, in minute doses, when the poison infects the
whole system and resembles blood poisoning. Give the drug
in two drop doses every hour or two for 24 hours. Then less
frequently. It is well to sometimes give this drug occasionally
while using the Tartar Emetic.
Arsenic, in minute doses, is very choice in the malignant forms of
Small Pox, when the pustules do not rupture early.
Sulpho-Phenique, in ordinary doses occasionally throughout the
case, will prevent pitting.
Vinegar, in tablespoonful doses three times daily, will cure as well
as prevent Small Pox. This should be administered from 12
to 15 days. Children should take a smaller dose.
Cyanide of Potash, in a strong solution sprinkled about the floors,
on the stairways, and in closets, every day twice, and nobody
in the house will have Small Pox.
Tinct. of Iodine, at the outset of the disease, painted on the inside of
the thighs, will prevent pitting of the face, as all the pustules
will appear where the painting was done.
SNEEZING— SOMNAMBULISM 105
In all cases of Small Pox and Scarlet Fever the skin Jiould be
rubbed daily with Carbolic Acid, one drachm, mixed in Vaseline,
five ounces. This will not only relieve the itching, but will also
disinfect the skin and prevent the scales from contaminating other
members of the family.
Hen's Oil, rubbed all over the body, plentifully, will prevent
Small Pox from pitting.
Is it Chickenpox or Small Pox? You may open the pustule of
Chickenpox with a single stab of a needle at its base, and press out
all the contents; but it requires several such stabs around the base
of a Small Pox pustule before you can press out all the lymph. If
the pustules of Small Pox on the face be thus opened and emptied
of their contents while in a liquid state, there will be no pitting —
no pock marks.
SNEEZING.
Onion Juice, three drops on sugar, is the best remedy.
Sanguinaria Nit, in minute doses, is a specific for persistent
Sneezing.
Insert a pledget of cotton loosely into each nostril so as not to
interfere with the breathing. Renew it every day.
Belladonna, in minute doses every hour for four or five hours, will
cure these cases.
SOMNAMBULISM (Sleepwalking).
Persons accustomed to walking in their sleep at night will be
immediately awakened as soon as their bare feet touch the large
piece of oil-cloth placed before their beds.
196 SORE NIPPLES—SPASMS
Such persons are suffering from Brain-fag, and should be given
Phosphorus, in 1-50 grain doses, after meals. It is better adminis-
tered in drop doses of the tincture.
Passiflora Incarnata, in teaspoonful doses before retiring, will insure
the quiet sleep of such persons.
SORE NIPPLES.
See "Breasts."
STUTTERING AND STAMMERING.
Administer Stramonium in minute doses.
Read aloud, with the teeth closed, for an hour or two every day.
In one week you can read and talk without difficulty.
SPASMS.
Turpentine, inhaled, relieves instantly.
Chloroform, inhaled, admitting plenty of fresh air, relieves in a few
minutes.
Amyl Nitrite, inhaled carefully, relieves speedily.
Melilotus, one drop of the tincture every five minutes during the
attack, and five drops three times daily to prevent its recurrence,
is the specific for all kinds of Spasms.
Copper Metalicum is one of the foremost remedies, particularly in
the Spasms of Whooping Cough.
SPASMS 197
Acetate of Copper, in minute doses, is also very fine.
In Spasms of children, observation should be made of the fore-
skin of the boys, and of the clitoris of girls. If constrictions exist,
they should be operated upon.
Tinct. of Veratrum Viride, in four to six drop doses every half hour,
until vomiting occurs, stands in the front rank for Spasms of
the woman in labor; in fact, for any Spasm.
Cina, in minute doses, for Spasms caused by worms.
Tinct. of Ignatia, for the Spasms of children who have been pun-
ished on going to bed.
Cantharis, five drops in a half glass of water, a teaspoonful every
10 or 15 minutes, cures uraemic Spasms. So also Tinct.
Hyoscyamus, in two drop doses.
Indigo, in minute doses, cures worm Spasms.
Tinct. of Pulsatilla, in three drop doses every half hour, for Spasms
due to suppressed monthly period.
GENERAL INDICATIONS.
The face blue, Acetate of Copper, in minute doses.
Face red, Belladonna, in minute doses.
Face pale and sweaty, Nux Vomica, drop doses of the tincture.
Flow of tears, Tinct. of Pulsatilla, or Cannabis Indica, in three
drop doses,
198 STINGS— SPERMATORRHEA
Patient conscious, Nux Vomica or Stramonium, in minute doses..
If it occurs during sleep at night, 10 grains of Bromide of
Potash, an hour before bedtime. Or, teaspoonful doses of Passi-
flora tincture.
A string or strap, drawn quickly and tightly around the ankle
or wrist, will prevent the Spasms of Epilepsy.
STINGS.
Ammonia, applied.
Tobacco, applied, for bee stings, is an instant relief.
Saleratus, applied, relieves in a minute.
Onion Poultice for the sting of spiders.
Mud Poultice for spider stings.
SPERMATORRHEA (Discharge of Semen).
^ Nux Vomica Pulv. grs. vij
Ergot Pulv. grs. L
M and divide into 21 powders.
Sig. Give one morning and evening after meals.
Sanmetto, in teaspoonful doses three times daily, is one of the fore-
most remedies.
Digitalin, 1-30 grain three times daily, where the heart is affected.
Thuja, in drop doses three times daily, is very choice,
SPRAIN 199
Camphor Water, cold, applied over the hips and genitals morning
and night after they have been rubbed with a coarse towel, is
very good and quite an essential part of the cure.
Ustilago Maydis, 10 drops every five or six hours.
Avoid all coition during treatment.
See "Emissions."
SPRAIN.
Arnica Tincture, 10 drops in a glass of water, and give one tea-
spoonful frequently.
Wrap the parts in flannel or absorbent cotton, saturated with
Spirits of Camphor.
Apply a poultice of Daisies, and in one half hour the joint can
be moved without pain.
A hot Hay Poultice is a specific, especially in chronic conditions.
Make six applications of Collodion, one after the other as soon
as they are dry; this is all that is required. It will be well the next
day. This is the treatment for all kinds of sprains, either joint;
or muscular.
I£ Oil Origanum
Oil Hemlock paa § i
Oil Thyme
Alcohol § iv
M and apply freely.
Gargling Oil for Sprains; see "Sundries."
200 SPINAL IRRITATION— STERILITY
SPINAL IRRITATION.
^ Strychnia Sulph. grs. i
Quinine Sulph. 3 i
Ferri Pyrophos 3 i
Acid Phosphorici dil. f § ij
Syr. Zingiberis f g ij
Ft. Sol.
M Sig. Teaspoonful in a glass of water after each meal,
STERILITY (Childlessness).
All married people who are childless should undergo a thorough
physical examination by a competent physician, to ascertain whether
the childless conditions are the fault of the husband or the wife.
It is not always the fault of the wife, by a long shot, as is commonly
supposed; but may be, and often is, the fault of the husband, due
to old strictures, either from masturbation or Gonorrhea (clap); or
it may be due in him because of Spermatorrhea, where the sper-
matozoa are not fully developed or matured before discharged. Gen-
erally it is due to the life and habits of the wife, or to some mal-posi-
tion of the genital organ. Thus, it is quite necessary, in such cases,
to make a thorough examination. In the female, sterility may be
due to anti-flexions of the womb, but not to any other flexions.
Aletris Ferinosa, in 10 drop doses three times daily, will correct
the trouble.
Belladonna Tincture, in drop doses three times daily, for a con-
traction of the internal neck of the womb. Specific.
Tinct. of Phosphorus, in drop doses, where the egg does not ripen
properly.
STOMACH 201
Sanmetto, in teaspoonful doses three times daily, for a man who
is sterile.
If Leucorrhea exists, it must be cured. If it is very acid, it may
be the cause of Sterility.
STOMACH.
Nitrate of Silver, in minute doses, for a painful, gasy condition.
Ipecac., 1-30 grain mixed in sugar of milk, four times daily, for sick
stomach and vomiting.
Nux Vomica, in drop doses of the tincture half an hour after eating,
for cramps due to undigested food.
Fl. Ex. Sassafras, teaspoonful doses in hot water, cures stomach
cramps and colic.
Aethusa Cynapium, in minute doses, cures vomiting of curdled
milk, and is specific for children as well as adults.
Figs, boiled in fresh milk and drink freely of the milk, will cure
any case of ulceration of the stomach.
Sulphur, one grain ground together with -J ounce of sugar of milk
for six hours, and divided into 21 powders. Take one powder
an hour before each meal. This is curative of more stomach
diseases than any one drug, or others combined.
See "Gastralgia" and ''Dyspepsia."
202 STOOL
STOOL
Blue Flag, in minute doses, for involuntary stools.
Tinct. of Phosphorus, for a long, slim, pasty stool, like a cat's.
Tinct. of Nux Vomica and Tinct. of Ipecac, in equal parts, 10 drops
in half a glass of water, teaspoonful doses every hour or two,
for green, undigested stool.
Magnesium Mur., for white flakes floating on the top of the stool,
like frog pond.
Arsenic, in minute doses every three or four hours, for a yellow,
painless and bad-smelling stool.
Charcoal, in milk, for a foul-smelling stool.
Thuja, in one-half drop doses, for a watery stool. Phosphoric Acid
is also good for this.
Psorinum, in minute doses, for a cadavarus-smelling stool.
» •
Mercury, in very minute doses, for a griping, bloody stool.
Nitric Acid, five drops in a half glass of water, a teaspoonful every
hour or two, for a bloody stool.
Leptandrin, in small, minute doses, for a black stool.
Ox-Bile Pills for white stool.
STRANGUARY 203
DIAGNOSTIC INDICATIONS.
White stool indicates absence of bile.
Mucus and bloody stool indicates inflammation.
Watery stool indicates irritation.
Glairy, dark green stool indicates Brain trouble, Dropsy.
Hard, dark stool indicates torpid and relaxed bowel.
See "Diarrhoea."
STRANGUARY (Suppressed Urine).
Camphor, one drop on sugar frequently repeated, starts the flow
of urine.
Hyoscyamus Tincture, in drop doses, is a specific for adults and
children alike.
Tinct. of Cantharis, three drops in a half glass of water, a teaspoon-
ful every three hours, will cure in a few days.
Chloral Hydrate, 10 or 15 grain doses, for adults, is a certain cure.
Repeat it if necessary.
Chloroform, inhaled, will start the urine in a few minutes.
Ice, in the rectum, will start the urine in 20 minutes.
Sitting upon a chamber-vessel containing Onions, steeping, will
make the urine flow,
204 STRICTURE— STY
Cause the patient to fill the lungs full of air and hold it for a
minute, and the urine will start to flow the next minute, or as soon
as the air leaves the lungs.
Tea made of the seeds of Watermelon is one of the best remedies.
STRICTURE.
Of the prepuce, immerse the parts into warm water strongly
saturated with Carbolic Acid, or plain Cider Vinegar. This will
relax the parts and relieve the case.
Of the urethra, Silicea, in minute doses, persistently admin-
istered, will dissolve all strictures of the urethra. This is a certain
cure.
Tinct. of Thuja is a very choice remedy, given in drop doses once
daily and continued one or two months.
For longitudal stricture, the Electrode is the best treatment.
Do not cut nor stretch these cases, as complications are liable to
arise by doing so. Patient and persistent treatment is best.
STY.
Rub the sty with a gold ring. You not only abort it, but cure it.
Anoint it with the following —
]$ Glycerine 3 ij
Carbolic Acid gtts. xv
Rose Water 5 ij
M and apply.
Pond's Extract is a good application.
SUNSTROKE— SYPHILIS 205
Pulsatilla, three drop doses of the tincture, will cure in a day or two.
Staphysagria, in minute doses, is a specific. Nothing else needed.
Silicea, in minute doses, is very choice.
Uranium Nitrate will prevent stys and the habit of having them.
Boracic Acid, 15 grains to one ounce of water; mix and paint the
sty several times daily.
SUNSTROKE.
Tinct. of Opium or common Laudanum, a teaspoonful as soon as
the attack occurs, will start the sweat in 30 minutes and relieve
the patient.
Glonoine, in minute doses, is the best remedy for the effects of Sun-
stroke.
Ice-coils, applied around the head, are good.
SYPHILIS.
Mercury Prot-Iodide, in officinal doses twice daily, to begin with,
and then three times daily, is the first remedy for Syphilis.
This should be continued one month, then give Iodide of Pot-
ash, in 10 grain doses after meals for three or four weeks, then
return to the Mercury.
206 TEETH
"MIXED TREATMENT."
1} Mercurius Bi-Iodide grs. ij
Potassium Iodide 3 ij
Syrup Sarsaparillal x > ...
Water j aa § n J
M sig. Two teaspoonfuls in water three times daily.
After meals.
Phytolacca tincture, in five drop doses, for all glandular and throat
troubles of Syphilis.
Iodia, one drachm three times daily, is a specific for Syphilis.
Nitric Acid, in minute doses, for secondary Syphilis, is specific where
the throat is involved and mucus Syphilides.
Muriate of Gold, is a specific for bone affections.
Silicea, in minute doses, is also good for bone affections of Syphilis.
Fluoric Acid, in minute doses, is an excellent remedy for ulcerations
of the mouth and throat.
Lycopodium, in minute doses, for falling hair in Syphilis.
TEETH.
Alcohol is the proper tooth-wash and will prevent the teeth from
decaying.
Phosphate of Lime is the true remedy for soft teeth of children, also
in slow teething.
TEETHING 207
Fluoric Acid for white spots on the teeth and decayed enamel.
Tooth-Powder —
^ Charcoal § iij
Calamus Root 3 v
Pumice Stone 3 iiss
Catechu . 3 iiss
Oil Bergamot gtts. xxx
Oil Cloves gtts. xxx
M and brush the teeth two or three times daily. This
cures diseases of the gums and sweetens the breath.
Tinct. Iodine will remove tartar from the teeth.
For Pyorrhea (Ulcers or abscesses at the root of the teeth) correct
the Kidney disease to which it is due. Inject along-side of the
tooth, and into the abscess, Peroxide of Hydrogen. Follow this
with Tannic Acid, dissolved in Tinct. of Iodine. This cures and the
tooth will fasten to the gums again.
See "Gums" — also "Hemorrhage."
TEETHING.
Chamomilla is the great specific for cross teething children.
Creosote is a specific remedy for all troubles of teething.
Phosphate of Lime for slow teething.
Agaricus, in minute doses, will cure convulsions of teething children.
Keep the bowel of teething children well opened and attend
carefully to their diet, which should be largely composed of prepara-
tions from wheat.
208
TOOTHACHE
Tinct. of Plantago Major, well rubbed on the gums and about the
mouth of a child, will stop the pain of teething.
Give two drop doses of the same several times daily.
TOOTHACHE.
3£ Arsenous Acid grs. xv
Cocaine Muriate grs. xv
Menthol Chrystals grs. iiiss
Glycerine 3 iij
M sig. Moisten cotton and put into the cavity of the
tooth. The effect is instant. Use it with care.
Creosote on cotton and put into the tooth, is a good remedy.
Carbolic Acid on cotton in the tooth, is a good remedy.
Permanganate of Potash, 2% solution in warm water, two tea-
spoonfuls held in the mouth for a few minutes, will stop tooth-
ache.
Tinct. Plantago Major, applied in the mouth, tooth and about the
jaws, will arrest toothache.
^ Cocaine (8% solution) gtts. xx
Oil of Cloves 3 i
Chloroform 3 i
Alcohol o i
M- sig. Dry the gums and apply on cotton, squeezing
the gums for a few minutes. All pain is gone and the
tooth could be extracted without suffering.
TOOTHACHE 209
To extract teeth without pain, use the following —
IJ Ether o ss
Camphor Pulv. 5 ij
M sig. Soak cotton in this and apply in and around the
tooth until the gums are white.
IJ Tinct. Cannabis Indica 5 i
Water o ij
^t and apply in and around the tooth. Warm the forceps
and dip them into the solution. Then extract the
tooth without pain.
Oil of Peppermint, applied, stops toothache.
The world's great toochache remedy, is made of the following —
IJ Chloroform gtts. xiv
Mastich gtts. viij
Balsam Peru gtts. v
M sig. Put a drop or two into the tooth. The cure is
instant.
Nitro-Glycerine, in minute doses (1-50 grain) is the master tooth-
ache remedy. One dose is sufficient.
The most desperate case of toothache, unless connected with
Rheumatism, will be cured instantly by applying the following remy
edy to the diseased tooth —
IJ Alum (finely pulverized) 3 ij
Nitrous Spirits Ether 5 vij
M and apply to the tooth.
a« TESTICLES— THROAT
TESTICLES.
Induration or swelling will be relieved by Phytolacca Tincture,
two or three drop doses in hot water four or five times daily.
Spongia Tosta, in minute doses, will cure swollen, painful testes,
and also tender and painful spermatic chord.
A paste of Sub. Nit. of Bismuth and water, applied, subdues pain.
Hamamelis, in minute doses, is a specific for inflammation of the
veins.
Rhododendron, in minute doses, for a bruised feeling.
Coca, in usual doses, for a shrunken condition.
Sanmetto is the grand specific for diseased conditions of the
testicles.
See "Orchitis."
THROAT.
Aconite, given in drop doses of the tincture every hour or two in
water, will subdue all acute inflammations of the throat. This
drug should be given in alternation with Belladonna, in the
same doses.
Apply to the throat an ice-bag.
Jaborandi in ordinary doses, is nearly specific for inflammations of
the throat.
THROAT 211
Phytolacca, in ordinary doses, when the tonsils are hard, and the
pain runs through to the ears, is the proper remedy.
3 Tinct. Myrrh 3 ij
Tinct. Hydrastis 5 ij
Glycerine 5 i
Water § i
M sig. Gargle the throat frequently. This will cure sore
throat in a few hours, even acute tonsilitis.
Apis Melifica, in minute doses, where the throat seems dropsical and
the pain is of a stinging character.
Tinct. of Hamamelis and pure Glycerine and water mixed one part
to two, and used as a gargle, is very fine.
Nitric Acid, in minute doses, where there is a feeling as if a splinter
was in the throat.
Hepar Sulphur where abscesses are liable to occur, and the pain is
like a fish-bone in the throat; also after the abuse of Mercury.
Glyco-Phenique is a very choice remedy, given in water.
Sanguinaria, in minute doses, for a dry throat with tickling cough.
Nux Muschata, in minute doses, for dryness of the throat on waking
from sleep, and made worse by east winds.
Valeriana, in minute doses, for sore throat with a sensation as if a
string or hair were in the throat.
To view the throat well, depress the tongue, hold the nose of
the patient and cause them to yawn. The pharynx will rise up and
every part of the throat may be easily seen.
212 TONGUE
In all troubles of the throat, correct the digestion, especially in
repeating tonsilitis.
See "Tonsils."
TONGUE.
DIAGNOSTIC INDICATIONS.
White indicates a feverish condition.
Moist Brown indicates disordered digestion.
Dry Brown indicates Typhoid conditions, blood poisoning.
Moist Red indicates exhausting drains of the system.
Dry Red indicates inflammatory fever.
Smooth Bright Red indicates inflammation, gastric and intestinal.
Red Papillae, "strawberry tongue/' indicates Scarlet Fever, Rothein.
Glazed Red indicates non-assimilation.
Trembling Red indicates delirium Tremens.
Sharp Pointed Red indicates Brain irritation, inflammation.
Tardy Protrusion indicates Brain concussion.
One-sided Protrusion indicates Lingual paralysis.
Dilated Trembling indicates Nervous Fever, or congestion.
TONSILS 213
Glazed, Blue, Cracked, Flayed, indicates Tertiary Syphilis.
Ulcerated (chronic) indicates Tertiary Syphilis or Epithelioma.
Pale, Flabby, Large Papillae indicates Debility, gastric, chlorotic.
Yellow indicates Liver derangement.
White Patch indicates Psoriasis linguas.
Thickened Epithelium indicates Ichthyosis.
TONSILS.
Baryta Iodide and Iodide of Lime, both in minute doses, will act as
specific for most troubles of the tonsils.
The last remedy taken in minute doses for a long time, will cure
all cases of chronic Tonsilitis without fail.
As in sore throat, so in Tonsilitis, the stomach and digestive
apparatus are the cause of the trouble in all chronic cases.
5 Veratrum Viride tinct. gtts. xx
Morphia Sulph. grs. i
Water § i
M- sig. A teaspoonful every two hours for three doses,
then every three or four hours, is master of inflamed
tonsils.
In Tonsilitis, as soon as it appears, begin to paint the tonsils
with Bi-Carbonate of Soda, every 30 minutes and take internally
two grains of the Sulphate of Soda every two hours in water.
For Quinsy and Tonsilitis give the following-
214 TRANCE— TREMBLING
Ammoniated Tincture of Guaiac, one drachm in a tablespoonful of
milk every four or five hours. If the bowel is affected, reduce
one-half. This is a specific.
Give 1-20 grain of Sulphide of Arsenic, every five or six hours.
Blue Vitrol, 10 to 60 grains in one ounce of water, and applied to
the tonsils, for enlargement of them, as a gargle, being careful
not to swallow the solution.
See "Throat."
TRANCE.
Fl. Ex. Cannabis Indica, 8 drops in warm water injected into the
rectum three times daily, will soon awaken the patient.
TREMBLING.
Agaricin, 1-12 grain hypodermically once daily, will cure trembling
of the body. All cases, even Palsy.
Argentum Nitricum, in minute doses, where the trembling is in
the legs.
Hyoscin Hydro-Bromate, 1-50 grain hypodermically, will cure Palsy
and Palsy-trembling in four weeks, and no failure about it.
Cicuta Virosa, in minute doses, for trembling of the arms.
Sulphuric Acid, in minute doses, for a sensation of trembling with-
out motion of the body.
Stramonium, in minute doses, for trembling of the whole body as if
from fright.
See "Locomotor Ataxia."
TRICHINOSIS^ULCERS 215
TRICHINOSIS.
Arnica Tincture, in drop doses every hour or two, will cure every
case of Trichinosis from eating raw pork.
Glycerine, in J ounce doses four times daily for two weeks, will kill
the parasites in the stomach. Xo water should be drank nor
other fluids for an hour after having taken the Glycerine.
TYMPANITIS (Bloating of Belly).
Chlorate of Potash, in grain doses to an adult, will quickly remove
all Tympanitis following a Laparotomy. Watch the Kidneys
in the use of all Potash medicines.
Tinct. of Colchicum, in two or three drop doses, is a sure and
speedy relief if given every 30 to 40 minutes.
Asafoetida, 10 grains dissolved in an ounce or two of hot water
or milk, and injected into the rectum, will remove the trouble
in an hour or two, and bring sleep and comfort to the patient.
Tinct. Veratrum Viride, 10 drops to an adult every two or three
hours, until vomiting is produced, and the cure is perfect. This
is especially good in Typhoid Fever.
Chamomilla, in minute doses, will at once remove the bloat of the
baby's belly.
Valeriana is always to be thought of in the bloating of hysterical
women. i
ULCERS.
Lactopeptin is well-nigh specific for ulcers of the chronic type.
Cover the ulcer well with the remedy, and put on a light ban-
dage, loosely applied.
216 ULCERS
Calomel mixed in Lime water until it is the consistency of cream,
and paint the ulcer with a camel-hair brush every day. Do not
wash nor disturb the application, but continue the painting
every day, and in a few weeks all traces of the ulcer have dis-
appeared. This is absolutely specific for chronic ulcers of the
leg. Rely upon it.
Protoneuclin is a choice dressing for ulcers, administer the same in
three grain doses every four hours.
^ Aristol grs. x
Balsam Peru gtts. x
Castor Oil § ij
M and apply to all unhealthy sores and ulcers, and a
healthy granulation will soon appear. This is a mag-
ical and unequaled remedy.
I£ Gypsum lb. ss
Oil of Tar g i
M sig. Make a paste with Olive Oil sufficient to cover the
ulcer. Apply fresh once daily to all sloughing sores.
Cloths wrung out of potato water, is an excellent application for
ulcers and all wounds.
Cabbage-leave Poultices are very excellent for ulcers.
Bread soaked in a solution of Pulverized Hydrastis Root, and
frequently renewed, is very excellent.
Peroxide of Hydrogen mixed in water, is unsurpassed as a purify-
ing wash.
Charcoal Powder should be mixed with all poultices for ulcers.
ULCERS ZU
Dissolve ^ ounce of Chlorate of Potash in two parts of water,,
and use as a wash or injection for ulcers of the vagina and rectum.
Pure Vinegar mixed with water 10%, is a very excellent wash for
ulcers.
^ Atropia grs. ij
Water 5 i
M and paint the ulcers once daily. This soon cures.
Especially where the surrounding parts are very red
and look shiny and erysipelatous.
The true remedy for ulcers, is Calcerea Phos., given in minute
doses. It will cure all ulcers if persisted in, without any external
application. It is the remedy, whether the ulcer be of the bones
or of the soft tissues. This is the first and only remedy needed and
absolutely specific.
The treatment that will cure 95 out of every 100 ulcers of every
type (except such as are specific) whether of the bone or soft tissues,
is the following: Remove all heavy and hot bandages and cloths
and simply cover them lightly with clean linen, changing every day.
Cleanse the ulcers once daily with pure warm water without the
use of soap. Now paint the ulcer with the following once daily —
5 Atropia Sulph. grs. ij
Water % i
M sig. Apply once daily with camel-hair brush.
Give by the mouth the following —
R Calcarea Phosphate grs. x
Sugar of Milk 3 iss
M et triturate thoroughly. Sig. Five grains 3 or 4 times
daily.
This treatment will positively cure any ulcer except those of the
specific class.
218 URETHRA
Ulcers due to Syphilids will be cured by the following—
5 Calomel = ij
Lime Water * v
Mr sig. Apply once daily and do not wash the parts at all.
Take by the mouth "Mixed treatment" mentioned under the
articles on "Syphilids,"
Silicea, in minute doses, serves a good purpose for offensive smelling
ulcers.
Thuja, in minute doses, for varicose ulcers of the leg, when they
present a dark purplish appearance.
Mercurius for ulcers of the leg, that are dirty, flat, and unhealthy-
looking, with ragged edges and a lardlike substance in the
bottom of them. Dust the powder into the ulcer also. The rem-
edy must be given in minute doses.
Caution — Be careful not to keep ulcerated surfaces too hot or
bandaged too tightly. The bandages and dressings must be very
light, and cool. Best not bandage ulcers of the legs at all.
URETHRA.
Cannabis Sativa and Cantharis, given in minute doses, are the true
specifics for acute inflammation of the urethra.
Tinct. Gelsemium, in five drop doses in water, five or six times daily,
soon cures acute inflammation, even Gonorrhea.
Apis Melifica, in minute doses frequently repeated, is the true specific
for dropsical and swollen conditions of the urethra.
Naphthalin, in minute doses, is curative of chronic inflammation oft
the urethra, also chronic Gonorrhea. It is reliable.
URINE 219
URINE.
Painful urinating: Cantharis, in minute doses, for pain with
blood, and desire to pass it frequently. Having a straining, burning,
and smarting sensation with a feeling as if not through urinating.
Berberis Vulgaris Tincture, five drops in a half glass of water, a
teaspoonful every hour or two, acts like magic.
Tinct of Camphor, in drop doses, where painful urinating has been
caused by the administration of Cantharis, or from the applica-
tion of Spanish Fly. In connection with Camphor, the patient
should drink large quantities of Flax Seed tea.
Apis Melifica, in minute doses, where the pain is of a stinging nature,
and the penis is dropsical.
Carbonate of Lithia, two or four grain doses, where pain is produced
by the passage of gravel.
Thuja, in minute doses, is a charming remedy for difficulty in pass-
ing urine with a constant desire.
Fl. Ex. Corn Silk, one to two drachm doses, is a magic wonder in
all diseases of the urinary tract.
Sanmetto, in teaspoonful doses, is another.
Rhus Aromatica (fluid extract), in 10 drop doses four times daily,
cures constant dribbling of urine.
Nitrate of Silver, in minute doses, cures Enuresis.
Causticum and Gelsemium are also good for dribbling urine.
Benzoic Acid, in minute doses, for foul-smelling urine.
220 URINALYSIS
Apocynum— Nitric Acid— and Berberis all in minute doses, will
clear urine of all sediment.
Santonine for milky urine.
Hellebore when it is like coffee grounds or suppressed.
Arnica, Berberis, Belladonna, Hamamelis, and Cantharis for bloody
urine.
Terebinth where the urine smells like violets.
Digitalis, Lycopodium, and Sepia, for red sand in the urine.
Sepia, for a pink sediment which sticks to the vessel.
All the foregoing remedies should be given in minute doses,
unless otherwise indicated.
URINALYSIS.
Normal urine should be an amber color, and should have a
specific gravity of 1018 to 1022. If the weight is less than 1015,
albimin may be suspected. If 1030 to 1050, sugar may be suspected.
The quantity of urine passed by a healthy adult, in 24 hours, should
equal about 50 ounces. The quantity of urea should be about 512
grains in 24 hours. The reaction of normal urine is acid. Highly
colored urine where a smaller quantity tha,n the normal is passed in
24 hours, indicates fever conditions. Light colored urine like water,
and larger quantities than normal is passed in 24 hours, indicates-
Diabetes. Strong-smelling urine like a horse's indicates inflamma-
tion of the bladder. If urine smells like violets, it indicates the
presence of bile in the urine, and liver trouble.
URINALYSIS 221
Albumin in urine may be found by boiling, or by the addition of a
few drops of Nitric Acid. If albumin is present, a curdy mass
will be seen. Now add slowly the Acid, drop by drop, and if
the curdy mass continues or increases, it is albumin. If it dis-
appears, it is earthy phosphates. Mucus in urine floats through
the liquid. Pus sinks to the bottom of the vessel.
Bile in urine may be found by putting into a test tube, 5 fluid
drachms of Hydro-Chloric Acid, and add to it drop by drop
just sufficient urine to color it. The two are mixed, to which is
added Nitric Acid, and at the point of contact between the mix-
ture and the colorless Nitric Acid, a handsome play of colors
appears. If the Hydro-Chloric Acid on addition of the bile-
urine is colored reddish yellow, the coloring matter is bilirubin.
On the other hand, if it is colored green, it is biliverdin. Put
Chloroform into small quantities of urine, and if it becomes
turbid and yellowish, bile is present.
Blood in the urine may be found by dipping the end of a small slip
of white blotting paper into the urine, and dry over a spirit
lamp until evaporated. Then drop two drops of the Tinct. of
Guaiacum on the paper, waiting a minute or two to allow
evaporation to occur; now drop one drop of Ozonic Ether in
the center of the Guaiacum stain, and a blue color appears if
blood is present. It may be necessary to wait half an hour for
this color to become visible.
Sugar in the Urine — If urine weighs 1030 or more, it may be pre-
sumed that sugar is present. If at the same time urine is very
pale and more than 50 ounces are passed in 24 hours, we may
be sure that sugar is present. To test the urine for sugar, into
4 ounces of urine, add a drachm of Baker's Yeast and place the
222 VACCINATION— VARICOSE VEINS
specimen near the stove. In 12 hours usually, if sugar is pres-
ent, evidences of fermentation will be seen. This is a very
delicate test, and is easily made. A sample of the urine should
also be bottled and placed along-side of the sample having the
yeast in it. By this method a comparison can be made.
VACCINATION.
To vaccinate a person successfully, first wash the arm with Ether
and follow by an Alcohol wash; then pinching up a small portion
of the skin scrape it until a little water-like substance is seen, but
no blood ; then dip the vaccine point into a glass of pure cold water,
and rub the Virus upon the abraded surface. Repeat this one inch
from the first. Keep the arm exposed until thoroughly dry. Do not
cover these spots with plasters or anything else.
Silicea, in minute doses, will cure all abscesses arising from impure
Virus.
Thuja, in minute doses is the true remedy for diseases arising out
of vaccination.
VARICOSE VEINS.
Pulsatilla is the true remedy, in minute doses, for diseased condi-
tions of the veins.
If the veins are very large and troublesome, they should be
ligated.
Ft Ex. Hamamelis, 10 drops in a half glass of water, two teaspoon-
fuls four or five times daily, is a very excellent remedy for
varicose veins.
VOICE— WARTS 223
Fluoric Acid, in minute doses, is said to be very good.
Bandages, when properly applied, are a great support to varicose
veins of the legs, as also are elastic stockings.
Collodion, painted thickly over varicose veins, several coats, will
completely cure them, unless they are very large. This is much
better than bandages or elastic stockings.
VOICE.
Spongia Tosta, in minute doses, is a great remedy for hoarseness.
Argentum Metalicum, in minute doses, is the true remedy for
hoarseness or loss of voice in professional singers and speakers.
It acts like magic in these cases.
Drosera, in minute doses, for hoarse base voice.
smarting feeling of the nose and throat which affects the voice.
Arum Tryphillum and Ambrosia, in minute doses, for a stuffed-up.
Borax, a small piece of the crystal dissolved in the mouth, relieves
hoarseness in 10 minutes. This is a good thing for professional
singers and speakers to do just before they sing, or speak.
VOMITING.
See "Nausea."
WARTS.
Glacial Acetic Acid, pure, applied with a tooth-pick over the wart
or mole, once daily and avoiding the surrounding skin, will
quickly remove them.
224 WATER
Rub the wart with a piece of Sal-Ammonia, dipped in water,
once daily for a week, and the warts are gone.
Tinct. of Thuja, one drop on the tongue and swallowed, two or three
times a week, will positively remove all seed or Fig Warts
from any part of the body. This is the true remedy for Con-
dylomata (Warts of the rectum or genitals).
Carbonate of Soda, saturated solution applied three or four times
daily, removes warts in a very short time.
Ex. of Mullein Leaves, applied to the warts three or four times
daily, quickly and surely removes them.
Thrust a pin through the base of the wart, and hold the head of
the pin in the flame of a candle until the pin is red hot, and ouli
comes your wart, roots and all. One wart treated thus, will kill all
the rest on any part of the body.
To remove warts without leaving a trace of the scar, apply a
super-saturated solution of Bichromate of Potash once daily.
WATER.
God made more water and air than anything else. He intended
to say to us thereby that we should use more of them than any-
thing else. The person who makes a plentiful use of water, inside
and outside, is wonderfully exempt from many of the maladies or
diseases that afflict the common herd of humanity. Many of the
diseases affecting woman and child-life especially, might be escaped
by the plentiful drinking of water. Water flushes the entire system,
as it would a sewer, and will put an end to all forms of constipation,
indigestion, and kidney disease. The drinking of hot water, unless
for the relief of pain, is very injurious, reducing the fat from the sur-
faces of the body, and exposing the superficial nervous system to
WATER 225
severe changes of temperature, thereby either chilling the system,
or exposing it to excessive heat. The superficial blood current is
also chilled by this' reduction of fat. Cold water increases the fats
of the body, and therefore, preserves its heat and its nervous energy.
Water may be tested for its purity by filling a clean pint bottle
| full with the water to be tested, and dissolve in it J teaspoonful
of the purest sugar. Cork the bottle and put it where it will be
warm for two days. If in from 24 to 48 hours the water becomes
cloudy or milky, it is unfit for use. If it remains perfectly clear, it
is safe for use. The boiling of water renders it perfectly pure.
After water has been boiled and become cool it should be shaken
so as to admit oxygen and this makes its taste natural.
Borax will clarify turbid water by precipitating all sediment. This
does not purify the water, it simply makes it clear.
Water is made harmless by making it into Lemonade.
Water may also be made harmless by adding Citric Acid, enough
so that it can be tasted.
A chunk of Alum moved through the water a short time, and
all impurities will go to the bottom of the vessel. Any animal life
will be destroyed.
To make water soft, use the following —
^ Orange Flower Water ss
Spirits Wine i
Soap lb. f
M Fiat. Shave the soap into the Orange Water and heat
until the soap dissolves, then add the wine.
Sig. Tablespoonful in a basin of water softens it. and
makes it delightful.
--'• WEN— WETTING THE BED
WEN.
Paint a Wen with flexible Collodion every day, and it is soon
destroyed.
Cut the skin over a Wen and it will pop out like a nut out of
its shell.
WETTING THE BED (Enuresis).
TJ Saturated Tinct. Graphalium Plantaginifolia
(Mouse Ear) 5 ij
Sig. For a child give 30 to 60 drops every night at
bed-time. Where the tincture cannot be obtained, an
infusion may be made of the plant.
Mullein Oil is said to be specific for wetting the bed.
Naphthol, in five drop doses, capsules, morning and evening, is an
absolute specific.
Chloral Hydrate, one grain on going to bed, is good.
Tinct. of Cantharis, 1-10 drop in water, will cure in two weeks if
taken three or four times daily.
R Fl. Ex. Belladonna 1 , ,
' . ^aa qSS
PI. Ex. Mix vomica
^d- sig. Give from two to five drops three times daily, to
a child from 7 to 12 years old. This is a positive cure.
Prevent the child from lying on its back.
The Tinct. of Plantain, in 20 drop doses three times daily, is an abso-
lute cure.
WHOOPING COUGH 227
Rhus Aromatica, in ordinary doses, will cure any case.
Causticum, in minute doses, will cure little girls from wetting the bed.
Tinct. Belladonna, in drop doses three times daily, may be relied
upon.
WHOOPING COUGH.
]? Fl. Ex. Castaneae 5 iij
Sig. Give a teaspoonful every two hours for three days
to a child five years old. During the night give a dose
after each paroxysm. A few grains of Bromide of
Potash may be added to each dose.
Oil of Peppermint, two or three drops on sugar every two or three
hours, is a simple but effectual cure for Whooping Cough.
Metalic Copper, in minute doses given every three or four hours
in alternation with Drosera, in minute doses every two or three
hours, will cure any ordinary case of Whooping Cough in
one week.
Cerium Oxalate, from one-half to two grain doses, according to
age, before breakfast every day, will cure any case in one week.
Iodide of Ammonia, in officinal doses, is the absolute specific.
Inhalations of Ammonia, in hot water, are very relieving.
Verbascum alb., in minute doses, cures Whooping Cough.
228 WORMS
Naphthalin, in minute doses, is nearly a specific for Whooping
Cough, as it is also for Asthma.
Pine Needle Pillows are the proper thing for a child to sleep on.
WORMS.
Cina, in grain doses given in milk or oil morning and evening, will
cure all worm affections.
Chloroform, six drops on sugar before breakfast, and followed im-
mediately by a dose of Castor Oil or Salts, will remove all
stomach worms.
Pin-worms will be destroyed by the application of Lard inside
of the rectum.
Salt water, injected into the bowel three nights in succession,
will kill all seat worms.
Oil of Peppermint, 10 drops in a tablespoonful of milk, will destroy
round worms. Give this while the stomach is empty.
If worms crawl up into the throat and cause choking and cough-
ing, give one-half teaspoonful of Salt, washed down with a little
cold water.
TAPE WORMS.
The only certain remedy for Tape-worm, for children or adults,
is the following —
WOUNDS 229
^ Oleo Resin Male Fern 3i
Chloroform 5 ss
Oleo Tig. gtts. ij
Oleo Resini q. s. add. 5 i
Glycerine 5 i
M sig. Shake and give -J before breakfast, and the bal-
ance in two hours, if necessary. It is not necessary
to reduce the dose for children, unless they are under
two years of age. This is the absolute and certain
cure for Tape-worm.
Thymol, 10 grains every 15 minutes until 12 doses are taken; then
give a full dose of Castor Oil. This also is a specific.
Tape-worms have been removed by giving 8 grain doses of
Salicylic Acid every hour for four hours, followed by an ounce of
Castor Oil in which is mixed a drachm of Oil of Turpentine. This
is an effectual and good remedy.
WOUNDS.
Acetanelid, ground into a fine powder and applied dry, is a very
excellent dressing for fresh wounds.
Iodocrol is one of the most scientific dry dressings for wounds,
having the advantage of the stimulation of Iodoform without
the odor.
Aloes, pulverized and mixed with equal parts of Sub. Nit. of Bis-
muth and applied dry to a wound, not only relieves the pain
at once, but heals the wound without a scar.
230 WOUNDS
If there are dangers of suppuration in a fresh wound, dress it
with a 10% solution of the Oil of Eucalyptus in Olive Oil.
Onion Juice, in three drop doses on sugar every hour for a few
hours, will prevent pain in an amputated portion. This is a
specific. This also prevents the sensation of coldness and
cramp in the amputated parts.
Sailcylic Acid is a good application to wounds, but Alcohol must
not be used in connection with it, as it would produce severe
caustic effect.
Salt Water is the proper dressing for wounds of the skin.
Pulverized Sugar is as good as Iodoform. Try it once.
Per Sulphate of Iron should be applied on lint to all severe bleeding
wounds. After the blood has stopped, change the dressing.
For suppurating wounds apply the following —
5 Gypsum lb. ss
Oil of Tar 5 i
M and make a paste with Olive Oil. This produces a
healthy granulation of the wound. Wash the parts
every day with Peroxide of Hydrogen with equal parts
of water, and reapplying the Tar Plaster.
IJ Aristol grs. x
Balsam Peru gtts. xx
Castor Oil o U
M Apply on gauze. This is one of the best dressings for
wounds that suppurate. It produces a healthy and
rapid granulation.
WRIST CRAMPS— YAWNING 2B1
WRIST CRAMPS (Writers' Cramp).
Hypodermic injections of \ grain of Nux Vomica.
YAWNING.
Give Tinct. of Ignatia, in drop doses.
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SUNDRIES
Test for Purity of Cocaine —
1st. Put Cocaine on a platinum plate and heat it. If pure,
there will be nothing left.
2nd. It must be of neutral reaction.
3rd. Sulphuric Acid added to a solution of Cocaine, and if pure,
there is no change in color.
Gargling Oil —
5 Camphor Tinct.
o viij
Oil of Amber
oij
Oil Origanum
oi
Acid Carbolic
§iv
Oil Turpentine
Oiij
Crude Petroleum
Oiv
Strong Ammonia Water
oij
M and dissolve and apply freely to sprains, etc.
aa q. s.
SUNDRIES 233
Trask's Magnetic Ointment —
3 Lard
Raisins
Tobacco (fine)
Mr and simmer on the stove until cooked; then strain
and press out. Good for bruises.
Clean Sponges —
Immerse them into a 2% solution of Permanganate of Potash;
then dip them into a 2% solution of Oxalic Acid to which has been
added a few drops of Sulphuric Acid. They become a beautiful
canary color, and pure.
Squib's Mixture —
5 Tinct. Opium
Tinct. Capsicum j.aa § i
Spt. Camphor
Chloroform 5 iij
Alcohol q. s. ad. 5 viij
M Dose. A teaspoonful in hot water.
This is good for Diarrhoea and all pain and colic.
This is the old-fashioned R. R. R.
To Remove Paint from Cloth —
Apply pure Carbolic Acid freely; then wash out with soap and
water.
To Make Nitre Paper —
Dip a piece of tissue paper into a strong solution of Saltpetre
and dry it.
234 SUNDRIES
Chlorine Water —
ty Pot. Chlorate grs. xl
Acid Muriaticum § ss
Aqua = i
M In a bottle and shake well; then add 15 ounces of
water. This makes a pint of Chlorine water. It is
good as a spray in Croup and Diphtheria.
Ozone —
Make Ozone for the sick room by tying a string around a bunch
of matches, then dip them into water and hang them in the room.
This will purify the air.
Oxygen —
Mix Oxalic Acid and Permanganate of Potash, without regard
to quantities or chemical proportions, in a saucer and turn a little
water over it. This generates Oxygen for sickrooms.
Asthma Powder —
Ground Stramonium Leaves, any quantity desired, and upon
them sprinkle finely powdered Saltpetre. This will burn when a
match is touched to it. It is very relieving to persons having Asthma.
To Allay Thirst and Hunger —
Constant excessive thirst may be cured by eating ham, and con-
stant hunger by drinking lemonade.
SUNDRIES 235
Thirst of Fever Patients —
Glycerine will stop the thirst by putting a drop or two upon
the tongue.
The Improved Method of Medication —
The Improved method of medication is by inunction of Lanolin,
which has been medicated, and which immediately penetrates
through the skin. Medicine applied in this manner comes into
effect in from one to two minutes.
To Preserve Ice in a Sick-room —
Wrap the ice in flannel, and it will not melt rapidly.
Camphorated Oil —
Make it by dissolving Camphor Gum in hot Olive Oil or
Sweet Oil.
Camphorated Ice —
This is made by dissolving Camphor Gum in hot Spermacetti
and adding 15 to 20 drops of Oil of Peppermint to each ounce.
This is very fine for cracks, chapped hands, sore lips, etc.
Phosphorus Tincture —
This is made by dropping a piece of Phosphorus into Alcohol.
Paracentesis —
In Paracentesis Thoracis the place of election is between the
eighth and ninth ribs in the line of the axilla.
236 SUNDRIES
In Paracentesis Abdominis the needle should enter in the middle
line, the patient being in a sitting position, and the bladder having
been previously emptied.
In Paracentesis Pericardii the patient should be in the recumbent
posture and the needle should enter at the fifth interspace in front,
due regard being had for the heart and large vessels.
Dover's Powder —
Ty Ipecac. Pulv
Opium Pulv. j-aa 5 i
Camphor Pulv. J
Xitrate Potash 5 vij
M sig. From 5 to 10 grain doses. This is good for
everything, from A to Ezra.
For Chills and Fever —
Yy Tinct. Iron o ss
Tinct. Iodine o ss
M Dose. 10 to 15 drops four times daily.
For Pain, Headache or Fever —
^ Cit. Caffein 5 i
Camphor 3 ss
Acetanelid o i
Bi-Carbonate Soda o l
'M and take 5 to 10 grains every two or four hours, as
needed.
Cocaine Intoxication —
May be prevented by the addition of Resorcin. which in itself
is a valuable adjunct.
SUNDRIES 237
Cough —
Give £ grain of Codeine for a Cough from any cause. One dose
every four hours.
Local Treatment of Iitching Eruptions —
Apply Pinus Ointment. It allays the itching at once.
Baths—
Everybody should take one full bath each week, and this should
be suited to the individual taking it. "The Blast should be tem-
pered to the shorn lamb." This phrase expresses the use and value
of the bath. Many persons cannot take a cold bath, and such
should accustom themselves to it by first beginning with a cold
sponging each day over the chest and neck, and gradually increasing
day by day until the full bath can be taken. The body should be
well rubbed with a Turkish towel before taking a bath. Adding
Salt to the bath and having the room warm will prevent "taking
cold." Hot baths should be given with great caution and only
upon the advice of the physician. Medicated baths are sometimes
of great value.
Ivy Poisoning —
Is best relieved by an application of a solution of Chlorinated
Soda.
238 SUNDRIES
Sterilization —
Milk may be sterilized by bringing it to the boiling point in a
water bath, and the opening of the jar closed with absorbent cotton.
Instruments are instantly sterilized by dipping them into Olive
Oil at a temperature of 256° F.
Whooping Cough —
Swab the throat with one part of Citric Acid and nine parts of
Simple Syrup. This cures in a few days.
Vegetable Dyspepsia —
Of children or adults, may be successfully treated by giving
Disatase in their oatmeal, or mush, or milk, or sprinkled on the
bread thev eat.
Bread-
May be made more digestible by adding five grains of Disatase
to every pound of flour. Bread made in this manner is superior
to any other, and makes a delicious toast. The toast powdered and
added to milk makes a most excellent food for infants.
Salve for the Stomach —
Avoid every habit which causes the saliva to be expectorated
instead of swallowed for at least an hour after eating. Try swallow-
ing saliva for a sour stomach.
SUNDRIES 2 39
Dropsical Swellings —
To relieve this trouble, eat Onions and Horseradish.
Walk erect-
Walk with vour hands behind you if you find Yourself becomin
bent forward.
For Fissured Nipples-
5 Ext. Krameria grs. :
Oil Amygdalae express. 3 iss
Oil Theobrom. q. s. ad. 5 i
M sig. For external use.
Artificial Respiration —
Place the patient upon a couch or floor; then proceed by raising
the arms over the head and back again, pressing the arms firmly
into the sides of the patient each time they are brought back from
over the head. Thus a vacuum is made in the lungs allowing the
air to enter, and the air is forced out by pressing the sides with the
arms. Continue the movement of the arms at the rate of normal
respiration, which is about 18 times per minute.
Vertigo —
Pilocarpine, 1-16 grain hypodermically before breakfast, relieves
Aural Vertigo.
PART II.
DRUGS AND THEIR USES.
TABLE OF DOSES 243
TABLE OF DOSES
FOR
HYPODERMIC MEDICATION. '
Apomorphia 1-10 to I grain.
Muriate of Morphine i to 4 grain.
Sulphate of Morphine ! s to J grain.
Sulphate of Atropia 1-130 to 1-120 grain.
Sulphate of Soda 2 grains.
Sulphate of Quinine 2 to 4 grains.
Strychnine. 1-120 to 1-60 grain.
Squibb's Liquor of Opium 5 to 40 drops.
Magendie's Solution 3 to 20 drops.
Tincture Hyosciamus 10 to 20 drops.
Tincture Cannabis 10 to 20 drops.
Ergot, Fl. Ext 15 to 30 drops.
Ether 20 drops.
Chloroform 10 drops.
Ice Water 30 drops.
Nitro-Glycerine 1-200 to 1-50 grain.
Pilocarpinae Hydro 1-20 to 1-10 grain.
Hyoscin Hydro-Bromate 1-50 to 1-25 grain.
244
TABLE OF CHARACTERS
TABLE OF CHARACTERS.
gtts. means drops.
drachms.
o
ss
aa
ounces,
scruples,
pint,
half,
of each.
1 drachm equals 60 drops.
1 ounce equals 480 drops, or 480 grains.
1 teaspoonful equals 60 drops.
8 teaspoonfuls equal 1 ounce.
1 dessertspoonful equals 120 drops.
1 tablespoonful equals 240 drops.
DOSAGE 245
DOSAGE.
The dose of a medicine should be as near as possible that quan-
tity of a drug which will produce the desired result, and no more.
When the curative effect, or the aggravation, of a medicine is
observed, it should be discontinued. This last statement contains
the secret of the cure of disease. Whenever the curative effect of
a medicine is seen, it has done what we intend of it, and nature
should be left to complete the task. When an aggravation is pro-
duced by a medicine, it should be discontinued, and nature will
generally cure the case by reaction, providing always that the aggra-
vation has been produced by the medicine and not by the disease.
It is proved beyond a doubt that the small, or minute dose, fre-
quently given, has more curative effect than the large dose, given
less often. Drugs are proven to be more valuable as medicines b/
trituration (grinding), or succussion (shaking), than when used in
their crude form.
Triturations are made by grinding certain percentages of the
drug with Sugar of Milk.
Dilutions, or succussions, are made by mixing and shaking a
drug with certain percentage of Alcohol or water or oil.
By these methods the minute dose is made.
Metals should never be used as medicine except in triturations.
Plant extracts are best made in dilutions in Alcohol or water. The
"minute dose" of a trituration is made by adding 1 part of a drug
to 100 parts of Sugar of Milk.
The "minute dose" of a dilution is made by adding 1 part of a
drug to 100 parts of Alcohol or water.
Both of these statements refer only to drugs that are not violent
poisons. In these the proportions should be 1 to 200.
The "minute dose" of these preparations is three to five grains,
or three to five drops, as the case may be.
246 DOSAGE
FORMULA FOR MEMORIZING OF DOSAGE.
By Dr. Wiggins, Philadelphia.
1 — The dose of all infusions is 1 to 2 ounces, except infusions of
Digitalis, which is 2 to 4 drachms.
2 — Dose of all poisonous tinctures is 5 to 20 minims, except tinc-
ture of Aconite, which is 1 to 5.
3 — Dose of all wines is from ^ to 1 fluid drachm, except wine of
Opium, which is 5 to 15 minims.
4 — Of all poisonous solid extracts you can give \ grain, except
extract of Calabar Bean, which is 1-16 to \ grain.
5 — Dose of all dilute acids is from 5 to 20 minims, except dilute
Hydrocyanic Acid, which is 2 to 8 minims.
6 — Dose of all aquae is from 1 to 2 ounces, except aqua Lauro
Cerasus and aqua Ammonia, which are 10 to 30 minims.
7 — Of all syrups you can give a drachm.
8 — Dose of all mixtures is from ^ to 1 fluid ounce.
9 — Dose of all spirits is from h to 1 fluid drachm.
10 — Dose of all essential oils is from 1 to 5 minims.
Note — All dosage must be according to the susceptibility and
age of the patient. The usual dosage for a child is one-half the
minimum dose of an adult, until it has reached the age of 5 years.
Then the dose may be increased one-third, until it has reached the
age of 12 years. Then the full minimum dose may be given until
it has reached the age of 16 years. This statement refers to the
administration of poisonous drugs.
ABIES NIGRA— ACONITE :M'
DRUGS AND THEIR USES.
A brief statement of drugs employed in this volume, and their
uses and doses, is as follows:
ABIES NIGRA.
General Indications: Dyspepsia with a total loss of appetite
in the morning, but great craving for food at noon and at night.
A sensation as if a lump had lodged in the stomach; a sense of
weight as if something had to be coughed up from the stomach.
Minute dose — See dosage.
ACONITE.
General Indications: Intense anguish and fear — afraid to go
outdoors on account of fear — croupy cough — dry, hot, burning skin
— numbness of the left arm — plethoric young girls, and women after
change of life — intense thirst — bounding pulse — inflammations and
congestions of all kinds.
248 AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM— ACETANELID
Minute dose — See dosage.
Ordinary dose — J to 3 drops of the tincture; and £ to J grain
of the extract.
Officinal dose — 1 to 10 drops of the tincture.
AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM (Horse-Chestnut).
General Indications: Horse-Chestnut is the remedy for
Rheumatism and Piles. Rectum feels as if full of sticks — constant
dull backache — paralytic feeling in arms, legs, and spine — heaviness
and lameness in back, made worse by motion.
Minute dose — See dosage.
AETHUSA CYNAPIUM.
General Indications: Vomiting of curdled milk — intolerance
of milk — diarrhoea of children — herpetic eruption on the end of the
nose — indigestion.
Minute dose — See dosage.
ACETANELID.
General Indications: Fever, congestion and inflammation —
same as antifebrin — headaches — neuralgic pain — excellent dry
dressing for wounds.
Dose — 3 to 15 grains.
AGARICUS— AILANTHUS GLANDULOSA 249
AGARICUS (Toad-Stool).
General Indications: Chilblains — pain and inflammation in
the toes — swollen, burning, itching hands or feet — specific for loco-
motor-ataxia — night sweats of consumptives — delirium tremens —
chorea — hysteria — trembling of the hands, with gouty stiffness of
the fingers.
Minute dose — See dosage.
Hypodermic dose of Agaricin — 1-18 to ^ grain.
AGNUS CASTUS (Chaste Tree).
General Indications: Sexual desire lessened — penis small,
relaxed, cold — impotence — no sexual power or desire — male and
female parts greatly relaxed. Specific.
Minute dose — See dosage.
AILAXTHUS GLANDULOSA (Tree of Heaven).
General Indications: Specific for malignant scarlatina — dark,
livid eruption — slow appearance of scarlet fever eruptions — throat
swollen and dark red — dizziness and drowsiness.
Minute dose — See dosage.
250 ALOES— ALCOHOL
ALOES (Aloe Socotrina).
General Indications: Diarrhoea after eating or drinking —
dysentery — colic — severe griping paia before stool — relieved after —
great weakness and sweating— bowel full of gas— piles like bunches
of grapes which are tender, hot and bleeding, with constant bearing
down in the rectum. This drug must be used with great caution,
as overdosing with it will produce great mischief.
Minute dose — See closage.
Officinal dose — Adult, \ to 1 drachm of the tincture.
ALETRIS.
General Indications: Constant drowsiness and sleepiness —
made worse after eating — fainting — specific for all uterine disorders
— suppressed menses — painful monthly — falling of the womb — leu-
corrhea — woman's best angel. Aletris Cordial may be made with
1£ drachm of Aletris to 6 ounces of Sherry Wine. The dose of this
is a teaspoonful after meals.
Minute dose — See dosage.
Ordinary dose — Adult, | to 1 drachm of the tincture.
ALCOHOL.
General Indications: Prevents decaying of the teeth by ap-
plying it diluted in water — an excellent mouth wash — or for wounds'
ALUM— AMMONIA 251
and bed-sores — and itch — specific in typhus fever when administered
in 6 drop doses every half hour and until a warm sweat occurs. This
will control the disease — the best application over the field to be
operated on.
Officinal dose — Adult, J to 1 drachm.
ALUM.
General Indications: Lead poisoning; it is specific for this,
given in 5 grain doses frequently repeated — painters' colic — consti-
pation with hard, dry stools, covered with mucus — croup — as an
application to wounds — it makes turbid water clear — for bleeding
of wounds.
Minute dose — See dosage.
Officinal dose — Adult, 5 to 20 grains.
As an emetic, 120 grains.
AMMONIA.
General Indications: For Ammonium Carb. — Nose bleed
while washing the hands or face — coryza — difficult breathing, as in
emphysema and asthma — night cough, worse at 3 a. m. — malignant
scarlatina, when the rash remains longer than usual — painful
monthly.
252 AM BROSIA— ANACARDIUM
Ammonium Mur. — Watery acrid coryza — hemorrhoids with
smarting in the rectum — hard, crumbling stools — leucorrhea like the
white of eggs.
Minute dose — See dosage.
Officinal dose — Aromatic 'Spirits, adult, 15 to 60 minims; Bro-
mide, 2 to 20 grains; Carbonate, 2 to 10 grains; Chloride, 5 to 30
grains; Iodide, 1 to 3 grains; Phosphate, 10 to 40 grains.
Hypodermic dose — Adult, Spirits of Ammonia, GO minims.
AMBROSIA.
General Indications: Specific for hay fever — eyes smart and
are watery — stuffed-up feeling in the nose — wheezy cough — nose
red and swollen. The poison of the drug is a perfect picture of
hay fever, and will absolutely cure it when given in minute doses.
Minute dose — See dosage.
AXACARDIUM (Marking Nut).
General Indications: Loss of memory, about which the
patient is very much troubled — jealousy — suspects everybody — sen-
sation as if a hoop around the parts — nervous headache — entirely
relieved when eating and when lying in bed — lack of confidence —
rectum seems plugged up and powerless — strange temper — laughs
at trifles and is serious over laughable things — imaginations — dys-
peptics with this peculiar mental crookedness.
Minute dose — See dosage.
AMMONOL— ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM 253
AMMONOL
General Indications: Specific for nervous and congestive
headaches — neuralgic pain of any part of the body — pneumonia and
pleurisy — dry, tight cough; this drug affords greater relief for pain
and is safer than any other preparation in the market. It may be
given to children at liberty in from 5 to 10 grain doses, irrespective
of heart disease. It is a heart stimulant.
Dose — From 5 to 20 grains, repeated at liberty.
AMYL.
General Indications: Asthma by inhalation — hysteria — con-
vulsions — fainting — whooping cough — (in minute doses it is a won-
der) — heart affections — sleeplessness — epilepsy.
Minute dose — See dosage.
Officinal dose — Adult, 1 to 2 drops.
ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM.
General Indications: Thick, milk-white coating on the
tongue — cross, irritable children that cannot bear to be touched or
looked at — sour things aggravate — sore, cracked, crusty nostrils and
corners of the mouth — cracked finger nails — toothache, worse at
night and sore to the touch.
Minute dose — See dosage.
254 AXTIMOXIUM TART— APIS MELIFICA
ANTIMONIUM TART (Tartar Emetic).
General Indications: Cough, with the throat full of mucus —
vomiting of mucus — eruptions like smallpox — nausea — vertigo with
drowsiness — face cold, bluish and covered with cold sweat — patient
is made worse by warmth — great rattling of phlegm in the throat
and chest — pneumonia — lungs full of phlegm, which cannot be
coughed up; this drug should always be given in minute doses,
unless used as an emetic.
Minute dose — See dosage.
Emetic — 1 to H grains.
ANTHRACINUM.
General Indications : Carbuncles — anthrax — felons — terribly
offensive pus — sloughing carbuncles with burning pains. When
arsenic fails to relieve the burning pain, give this drug in minute
doses.
Minute dose — See dosage.
APIS MELIFICA (Honey Bee).
General Indications: Stinging pains like a bee sting — breath-
ing so difficult that the patient must sit up — thirstlessness — inter-
mittent fever — sag-like bags under the eyes — oedema and dropsy
without thirst — suppression of urine — dropsy of the ovaries and of
APIOL— ARGENTUM METALICUM 255
the serous tissues. This drug is specific in all dropsical conditions
where there is difficult breathing with stinging pains and an
absence of thirst.
Minute dose — See dosage.
APIOL.
General Indications: Amenorrhea with dropsy. Given in
from 5 to 10 grain doses twice daily; is said to produce abortions,
so it must be used with caution.
Dose — 1 to 3 grains night and morning.
APOCYNUM CANNABINUM (Dog's Bane).
General Indications: This drug is specific for dropsy from
any and every cause where there is great thirst, but water dis-
agrees — acute hydrocephalus; in dropsies from heart disease it acts
better than digitalis — Sciatica.
Dose — From 1 to 6 drops of the tincture four times daily.
ARGENTUM METALICUM (Metalic Silver).
General Indications: Total loss of voice in professional
singers and speakers, with great hoarseness. For this it is specific.
Aphonia — viscid, grey, jelly-like mucus in the pharynx, easily
hawked up in the morning — throat feels raw or sore when swallow-
ing or coughing — raw spot in the wind-pipe — severe pain in the
left ovary and loins.
Minute dose — See dosage.
256 ARNICA— ARSENICUM ALB
ARNICA (Leopard's Bane).
General Indications: Results of injuries and bruises — body
feels bruised — head hot and body cold — tendency to small boils —
contusions — Trichina Spiralis it is specific.
Minute dose — See dosage.
Officinal dose — 1 to 5 drops.
ARSENICUM ALB. (Arsenous Acid).
General Indications: Great prostration and fear of death —
the strongest indication for this drug is that the patient has an
awful fear and dread of death — great anguish — dropsy with great
thirst, but water lies like a stone in the stomach — diarrhoea with
cadaverous smell — gangrene — all symptoms better from heat. It is
an antidote for the bad effects of ice-cream — bran-like, scaly erup-
tions with itching and burning — skin dry, rinkled and hot — burning
pain — poisons from decaying animal or vegetable matter — blood
poisoning — pale teething children — all symptoms are worse after
midnight — anaemia and chlorosis where the face is pale, waxy and
dropsical.
Minute dose — See dosage.
Officinal dose — 3 to 10 drops.
This drug is best given in the minute dose, frequently repeated,
for all diseases indicated.
ARUM. TRIPH.— AURUM 257
ARUM. TRIPHYLLUM (Indian Turnip).
General Indications: Chronic hoarseness from singing or
speaking — burning discharge, which makes the nose and lips sore —
corners of the mouth cracked and raw — nose stopped up, or a burn-
ing fluid discharge. Aphthae and sore mouth, with white patches
inside the cheeks.
ASAFOETIDA (Devil's Dung).
General Indications: Hysteria and nervous excitability, with
sleeplessness — a feeling as if there is a ball in the throat — disgust
for food, but a thirst for wine — pain in the head as if a nail was
driven from inside out — all secretions and discharges are offensive —
tympanitis and pain following abdominal operations; for this give it
in 15 grain doses dissolved in hot milk and injected into the rectum.
It acts like magic.
Minute dose — See dosage.
Officinal dose — 5 to 15 grains.
AURUM METALICUM (Gold).
General Indications: Syphilis, where the bones are affected
and the disease runs an irregular form. No drug is equal to it for
this trouble, but it must always be given in minute doses and fre-
258 BAPTISIA— BARYTA. CARB.
quently repeated. Melancholy, with harrassing thoughts of com-
mitting suicide. This symptom is one of the chief guides for the
use of this drug. Bromide of Gold, for Consumption, hypoder-
mically administered in from 3 to 10 drops, is said to be curative,
but the guiding symptom is "harrassing thoughts of committing
suicide."
Minute dose — See dosage.
Officinal dose— 1-20 to 1-10 grain.
BAPTISIA (Wild Indigo).
General Indications: Blood poisoning from any cause what-
ever. This drug is specific. In typhoid fever no other drug is
necessary; it cures the fever, the delirium and the stupor, and con-
trols the diarrhoea. It purifies offensive breath.
Dose — From 1 to 5 drops of the tincture in water every two or
three hours.
BARYTA. CARB.
General Indications: All glandular troubles, especially of the
tonsils, the submaxillary and parotid glands, especially where they
suppurate often.
Minute dose — See dosage.
BELLADONNA— BERBERIS VULG. 25S
BELLADONNA (Deadly Nightshade).
General Indications: Furious delirium — the patient strikes
and bites as in a case of hydrophobia — sees frightful visions before
the eyes, and tries to escape — inflammation of the eye — red and
inflamed eyes where the pupils are dilated and cannot bear the light
— sore throat, as in scarlet fever — Scarlet fever, the only remedy
needed — Sleeplessness, but the patient cannot go to sleep — all pains
come suddenly and go suddenly. A specific for people who take
cold with every change in weather and of the clothing. Throbbing
headaches.
Minute dose — See dosage.
Officinal dose — Extract, i to 1 grain; Fl. Ex., 2 to 4 drops; tinc-
ture, 8 to 30 drops. This drug acts very much the best when given
in the minute dose, frequently repeated.
BERBERIS VULGARIS (Barberry).
General Indications: One of the best remedies for all kidney
and bladder diseases where there is pain in the loins and hips —
urine is very red and scanty, with great drawing, stitching pains in
the bladder, with urgency to urinate. It is well-nigh a specific rem-
edy for all urinary diseases.
Minute dose — See dosage.
Officinal dose — Fluid extract, J to 1 drachm. This drug is best
given in the tincture in three to five drop doses.
260 BENZOIC ACID— BRYONIA ALBA
BENZOIC ACID.
General Indications: Bladder diseases — wetting the bed,
where the urine is dark, with a strong odor — bladder catarrh after
suppressed gonorrhea — in all diseases where the urine has a fetid
smell.
Minute dose — See dosage.
Officinal dose — 8 to 25 grains. This drug is best administered
in drop doses of the tincture on sugar every hour or two.
BORAX.
General Indications : Hoarseness and sore throat of singers —
aphthae and sore mouth of children — membranous dysmenorrhea;
specific — cannot bear the downward motion, as in a swing, rocking-
«~hair, or going down-stairs — dreaming as if falling down from a
height.
Minute dose — See dosage.
BRYONIA. ALBA.
General Indications: For all diseases that are made worse
by motion; aggravation by motion is its guiding symptom — dull
headaches, extending backward over the head and neck — greedy
drinking of water — constipation of hard, burnt stools — pneumonia
and pleurisy, where pain occurs only while coughing or taking a
long breath — dreaming of the affairs of the day — bleeding of the
CACTUS— CAMPHOR 261
nose when the monthly should appear — stiff neck — typhoid fever
with passive delirium — blood poisoning — suppression of the lochial
discharge after confinement — thirst for warm drinks, which relieve.
Minute dose — See dosage.
Officinal dose — From 1 to 2 drachms of the tincture. This drug
is best given in the minute dose, frequently repeated.
CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS (Night-Blooming Cereus).
General Indications: Heart disease, where there is enlarge-
ment or rheumatism — palpitation of the heart — heart feels as if
clasped and unclasped by a strong hand. This is one of the best
remedies, as well as tonics, in heart disease.
Minute dose — See dosage.
CAMPHOR.
General Indications: Cholera and cholera-like pains in the
bowel, with diarrhoea — great coldness of the whole body — cold
breath — summer complaints of children — sudden attacks of diarrhoea
where the patient complains of being cold — it prevents taking cold
after exposure — inflammation of the eyes; for this it is best applied
around the eyes and the temples — headache, where there is nausea
or vomiting — fainting and sickness of the stomach — sprains and
bruises; wrap up the parts in cloth saturated with the tincture — pre-
vents discoloration where bruises occur — suppression of urine, after
blistering with spanish-fly or taking tincture of cantharis — it anti-
dotes all other drugs that are prepared in minute doses.
Minute dose — See dosage.
Officinal dose — 5 to 60 drops of the tincture. This drug is best
given in drop doses of the tincture on sugar.
262 CANNABIS— CANTHARIS
CANNABIS IXDICA (Foreign Indian Hemp).
General Indications: Insanity — mental weakness — laughing
at trifles — always thinking and studying — delirium tremens — hemor-
rhage from the womb — flooding — neuralgia — toothache — ravenous"
hunger.
Minute dose — See dosage.
Officinal dose — Fluid extract, 5 to 15 drops; tincture, 10 to
60 drops.
CANNABIS SATIVA (Persian Hemp).
General Indications: Acute gonorrhea, where there is burn-
ing and biting pain — inflammatory stage of gonorrhea — scrofulous
eye troubles.
Minute dose — See dosage. This drug is best given in the
minute dose.
CANTHARIS (Spanish-fly).
General Indications: Nymphomania — intense sexUal desire
— painful erections — constant desire to pass urine, passing but a
few drops at a time — bloody urine — diarrhoea, where the stools
look like scrapings of the bowel mixed with blood — in minute doses
for inflammatory stage of clap.
Minute dose — See dosage. This drug is only to be given in
minute doses two or three times daily. Camphor will antidote its
bad effects.
CAULOPHYLLUM— CHAMOMILLA 26J
CAULOPHYLLUM (Squaw Root).
General Indications: This drug, given several weeks before
confinement, will make labor very easy — rigidity of the os at con-
finement — false labor pains — hemorrhages from the womb where it
is relaxed — threatened abortion from lack of tonicitv of the womb.
Minute dose — See dosage.
Officinal dose — 1 to 5 grains.
CAUSTICUM.
General Indications: St. Vitus dance — epilepsy — paralysis —
wetting of the bed — coughing causes involuntary discharge of urine
— sudden loss of voice — warts.
Minute dose — See dosage.
CHAMOMILLA (German Chamomile).
General Indications: Peevish, teething children — rheuma-
tism, made better by walking about — bowels full of gas — it is the
opium for children's diseases — green, watery stools, which smell
like rotten eggs.
Minute dose — See dosage.
264 CHELIDONIUM— CINA
CHELIDONIUM MAJUS (Tetter Wort).
General Indications: The great liver remedy, where there is
a constant pain around the right shoulder blade — liver diseases
with jaundice — bilious diarrhoea — stools slimy and yellow.
Dose — 2 to 5 drops of the tincture in water every 2 or 3 hours.
CHINA (Peruvian Bark).
General Indications: China is the great tonic to be used
during and after the loss of vital fluids, such as semen or hemor-
rhage — loss of appetite — ringing in the ears — fainting spells — sore,
tender scalp — good for hiccough — increases labor pain — specific to
prevent the formation of gall-stones — nature's best tonic — cures
ague, coughs and colds.
Dose — 5 to 20 drops to be taken in Sherry Wine before each meal.
Officinel dose — Adult, 1 to 20 grains of Quinine — China, 1 to 4'
drachms.
CINA (Worm Seed).
General Indications: Best remedy for cross and irritable
children — worm symptoms — it is the great worm remedy — it is
much safer and better than Santonine — craving for food.
Minute dose — See dosage. This remedy is best given in drop
doses of the tincture 'on sugar 2 or 3 times daily.
COCCULUS INDICUS-CREASOTUM 265
COCCULUS INDICUS (Indian Cockle).
General Indications: This remedy cures seasickness and nau-
sea from riding in a carriage or swing — it also cures the vomiting
of pregnancy that is made worse by riding in a carriage or a swing.
Headache as if the top of the head was lifted up.
Dose — 3 drops of the tincture 4 times daily.
COLOCYNTH (Bitter Cucumber).
General Indications : This is the great remedy for colic where
the patient is bent double and pressure upon the belly relieves the
pain. It is also curative of sciatica, with drawing, tearing pains in
the hip-joint, and running down the leg — dysmenorrhea, where there
is intense pain in the ovaries, causing the patient to bend double —
colic from any and every cause.
Minute dose — See dosage.
Officinal dose — 3 to 10 drops of the tincture.
CREASOTUM (Kreasote).
General Indications: For all discharges, whether bloody or
lochial or leucorrhea, which are offensive, corrosive, and intermittent.
This remedy is a grand specific. It is said to have cured consump-
tion. It should always be given in the minute dose; the officinal
dose is ruinous to the stomach.
Minute dose — See dosage.
2,;r - CINXICIFUGA— COPPER
CIMICIFUGA (Macrotis, Black Cohosh).
General Ixdicatioxs: Irregularities of the monthly period-
uterine pains when the pain crosses from hip-point to hip-point —
shooting, darting pain from side to side — mental troubles at the
monthly time — hysteria — uterine troubles of rheumatic persons —
puerperal mania.
Minute dose — See dosage.
Ordinary dose — Adult, 1 to 2 drachms of the tincture.
COLLINSONIA (Stone Root).
General Indications : For piles of women this remedy cannot
be equaled where there is habitual constipation — it is the great rem-
edy for constipation of women and all the evils resulting from it.
For this it must be taken in 3 drop doses of the fluid extract or
5 drop doses of the tincture, 4 times daily. This remedy cures
gravel when given in full doses. The best way to use it for piles
is to pare a potato until it is sufficient size to pass into the rectum,
then force into this potato, with a hypodermic syringe, 8 or 10 drops
of the tincture and insert the potato inside the rectum. The medi-
cine will be absorbed.
COPPER (Copper Metal).
General Ixdicatioxs: The great whooping cough remedy, as
well as a great remedy for spasms and convulsions — long, lasting
spasmodic cough, with blue face, and breathless — terrible cramps in
the calves of the legs and the bottoms of the feet — cramps — cramps —
cramps — dysmenorrhea with cramps — cholera morbus with cramps
DIGITALIS— DIOSCOREA 267
in the belly and cramps in the legs. The arsenite of Copper is the
great remedy for painful diarrhoea of children and consumptives,
where there are violent cramps.
Dose — 1 part of Copper ground into an impalpable powder and
mixed with 100 parts of sugar of milk and thoroughly triturated.
Of this take 5 grains every few hours. Or, for cramps, wash a penny
clean and carry it in the mouth one hour every day. This will not
only cure, but prevent cramps.
DIGITALIS (Fox Glove).
General Indications: Digitalis has killed more patients than
it has ever cured. Its victims may be counted by the thousands,
all on account of its large and continued doses for heart troubles.
It has the unhappy nature of accumulating in the system when
given in large doses, and blossoming out with all the violence of a
poisonous dose. It should never be given except in minute doses.
Unless its good effects can be seen in from 48 to 60 hours, stop its
use. Apocynum Canabinum is a much better and safer drug than
Digitalis in dropsies and heart disease. Dose of Digitalis 2 drops
of the tincture every 2 hours. Dose of Apocynum, 5 drops of the
tincture every 2 hours.
These drugs are used in all heart diseases where the pulse inter-
mits and is small, or where the heart seems to stop suddenly, or
the functions of the kidney are suspended and there is red sand in
the urine — irregular, difficult breathing where dropsy is present.
DIOSCOREA (Wild Yam).
General Indications: Liver colic— terrible cramping pain in
the region of the liver — a feeling as if the bowel was twisted.
Dose — 4 drops of the tincture in water every hour until relieved.
268 DULCAMARA— IRON
DULCAMARA (Bitter Sweet).
General Indications: This remedy is specific in colds and
violent coryza, which are renewed by the slightest exposure, or from
low, damp places — diarrhoea from taking cold in damp places or
damp weather — it is also the proper remedy for nettle rash with
much itching, when the itching is increased by warmth, or getting
warm in bed.
Minute dose — See dosage.
IRON.
General Indications: Pale, ashy complexions in aenemia —
bloodless condition. This remedy is better given in connection with
Manganese for the above conditions — Ferro-Mangan. Iron should
never be given in large and continued doses. The human body
contains about 23 grains of iron, so that large and continued doses
irritate and injure the system, inasmuch as that the surplus must
be carried off as effete matter and is very irritating to the digestive
tract. The best form of iron is the metal itself, ground into an
impalpable powder and mixed with sugar of milk. This is the only
form in which the human system can appropriate iron. The crys-J
tals in the tinctures of iron are larger than the blood globules, and
therefore cannot be appropriated.
Phosphate of Iron is one of the best remedies for acute inflam-
mations of every kind, and is a specific for headache when given in
minute doses; it wards off apoplexy by improving the conditions
of the arteries, and must be given in minute doses.
Susqui-Chloride of Iron, the ova of albumin, and soda, make,
when mixed chemically, what is called Nitrogenized Iron, and it is
a very choice preparation as an elixir, in anaemia and chlorosis.
Syrup Iodide of Iron is the remedy for chronic cough, especially
such as accompanies the change of life; the dose should be 1 tea-
spoonful after meals.
GELSEMIUM— GRAPHITES 269
GELSEMIUM (Yellow Jessamine).
General Indications : This is the great remedy for cerebro-
spinal meningitis, where the head is drawn back and to one side.
Numbness of the tongue — fever without thirst — right-sided head-
ache — diarrhoea, aggravated by excitement — trembling of the legs
— a desire to be perfectly quiet — ringing in the ears — nightly emis-
sions — given in 5 drop doses of the tincture 4 times daily, will cure
all cases of acute gonorrhea.
Minute dose — See dosage.
Officinal dose — Adult, 5 to 20 drops of the fluid extract — 10 to
50 drops of the tincture.
GLONOINE (Nitro-Glycerine).
General Indications : Terrible, crushing, throbbing, pulsating,
sinking headache — head feels as if it would break — it is specific for
the bad effects of sunstroke — violent cases of sciatica and chronic
neuralgia — it is the proper remedy for shock following operations,
or collapse from any cause — 1 or 2 drops of a 1% solution are
equal to a quart of whisky.
Minute dose — See dosage.
Ordinary dose — Adult, 1-G0 of a grain, or 1 drop of a 1% solu-
tion in Alcohol.
Officinal dose — J- to 3 drops.
GRAPHITES (Black Lead).
General Indications: This remedy cures, when given in min-
ute doses, all eruptions and eczema where there is a thick, sticky,
270 HEPAR SULPHUR— HYDRASTIS
honey-like fluid, such as is found in eczema of the scalp and ears.
Unhealthy skin — phlegmonous erysipelas with burning, tingling
pain. It is well, while using this remedy, to apply a salve at the
same time of 10 grains of the crude drug mixed in 1 ounce of
vaseline, once daily.
Minute dose — See dosage.
HEPAR SULPHUR (Sulphuret of Lime).
General Indications: Sour-smelling children — unhealthy ul-
cers that smell like old cheese — abscesses — boils — carbuncles —
croup, with strangling cough. 1 grain of this preparation three
times daily will prevent an attack of La Grippe.
Minute dose — See dosage.
HYDRASTIS (Golden Seal).
General Indications: Good for dyspepsia — loss of appetite —
sick headache with constipation — sore eyes — sore mouth — chafing
of infants — sore nipples — ulcers in the mouth, throat and stomach.
Fluid extract of Hydrastis, 10 to 15 drops 4 times daily, is one of
the best remedies for uterine hemorrhage — piles with great irritation
of the rectum.
D 0S e — 5 to 10 drops in water upon an empty stomach four times
daily.
HYOSCYAMUS— IGNATIA 271
HYOSCYAMUS (Black Henbane).
General Indications: Insanity, with boisterous laughing and
talking absurdly — staring eyes and picking at the bed cloths. The
Hydro-Bromate of Hyoscin, 1-25 to 1-50 of a grain hypodermically,
cures delirium tremens — insanity — immodesty with vulgar conver-
sations — hysteria — mental hallucinations. Specific for locomotor-*
ataxia.
Minute dose — See dosage.
Officinal dose — Extract 1 to 3 grains. Tincture J to 1 drachm.
IGXATIA (St. Ignatius' Bean).
General Indications: This is the great remedy for grief —
silent, suppressed grief — the patient is full of grief and broods over
imaginary troubles — a feeling as if a ball of wind was rolling up
into the throat — hysterics, every little emotion, disturb the patient —
bad effects from tobacco and all diseases are aggravated by the
smell of tobacco or coffee — neuralgia between the ribs — convulsions
of children after being punished — twitching about the mouth — head-
ache as if a nail was driven into the head — falling of the anus — con-
stipation of children — the chief characteristic which indicates the use
of this drug is grief — unaccountable grief — inexplicable grief. Dis-
appointed love.
Dose — This drug is best given by putting 6 drops of the tincture
in half glass of water and give a teaspoonful 3 or 4 times daily.
Officinal dose — Adult, 15 to 20 drops of the tincture.
272 IODINE— IPECACUANHA
IODINE.
General Indications: This drug applies to the glands and ab-
sorbents of the human body. Therefore, it is good for marasmus in
children and thin flesh in adults, although their appetite may be good
— the absorbents fail to do their work and the food is not assimilated.
Indebility and exhaustion — prostration so great that every exertion
— causes perspiration — pulsation of all the arteries — croup with
wheezing, sawing respirations — leucorrhea which stains the linen,
and is very corrosive. Goitre and thick neck — pain in the spermatic
cords — vomiting — strychnine poisoning — snake bites — asthma and
chronic bronchitis.
Dose — To obtain the best results from the administration of this
drug, 15 or 20 drops of the tincture should be put into a glass of
water; take a swallow 5 or 6 times daily, then skip 2 days and
repeat, then skip one week and take half the dose for one day. As
an external application it is of very little use, inasmuch as that the
quantity employed will be liable to increase the trouble.
IPECACUANHA (Ipecac).
General Indications: The chief indication for the use of this
drug, is nausea. In minute doses it will control the most violent
nausea. It is one of the best remedies to control hemorrhage, especi-
ally internal hemorrhage — wine of ipecac is well-nigh master of
bleeding from the lungs — it cures dyspepsia and loss of appetite —
diarrhoea where the stools are green and nausea and gripping are
present — phlegm in the throat — a feeling as if the stomach were
hanging down and relaxed — severe hemorrhages during and after
labor are better controlled by a grain or two of ipecac than by any
other drug.
Minute dose — See dosage.
To produce vomiting, 10 to 15 grains.
IRIS— KALI BICHROM. 273
IRIS (Blue Flag).
General Indications : Periodical sick headache where the pain
begins over the eye and vomiting is present — loss of appetite and
loss of taste — cholera morbus and cholera infantum — in minute
doses it is the master remedy — waterbrash — the water runs like a
stream from the mouth.
Minute doses — See dosage. Its curative effect is only obtained
by the minute dose.
Ordinary dose — 5 to 30 drops of the tincture.
Officinal dose — 10 to 20 grains.
KALMIA LATIFOLIA (Mountain Laurel).
General Indications: This is the great heart remedy, espe-
cially where heart affections follow rheumatism — slow breathing and
oppressed. Headache increased by the heat of the sun — rheuma-
tism, especially of the heart — albuminuria, for this it is unparalleled —
pain of every sort and description — a good household, every day
remedy, is equal parts of the tincture of Gelsemium and tincture of
Kalmia mixed; of this give 3 or 4 drops for headache, neuralgia,
rheumatism, toothache, in fact pains of all kinds; repeat the dose
every half-hour until relieved.
Minute dose — See dosage.
Ordinary dose — 10 to 30 drops of the tincture.
KALI BICHROMICUM (Bi-chromate of Potash)
General Indications: Tough, ropy discharges from the nose
and throat — diphtheria having this tough, stringy ropy mucus —
274 KALI IOD.— LILIUM TIG.
headache in the frontal sinuses with a cold feeling over the bridge of
the nose and inside of the nose.
Minute dose — See donage.
KALI IODATUM (Iodide of Potash).
General Indications : This is the chief remedy fs.
ZINCUM (Metalic Zinc).
General Indications: Nervous fidgity feeling in the feet —
burning of the eyelids and lips — headache from drinking wine, simi-
lar to Nux Vomica.
Valerianate of Zinc is one of the best remedies for hysteria and
nervous conditions of women.
Minute dose — See dosage. This drug is best given in the minute
dose.
Officinal dose — 1 to 2 grains of the Valerianate ; 1 to 3 grains of
the Phosphate; Sulphate emetic 15 to 20 grains.
TONICS
We are not made of drugs but of beef steak, and cabbage, and
potatoes, and bread, etc., but occasionally nature needs a little boost,
so we give tonics. Preparations that contain Malt, Iron, Strychnine,
Gentian, Quinine, etc. are among the principal drugs used in Tonics.
286 TOXICS
One of the best Tonics is made as follows:
E Fl. Hydrastis (non-Alcoholic) 5 ij
Sherry Wine 5 xij
^Ar and take two tablespoonfuls before each meal.
R Tinct. Prickly Ash 5 i
Sherry Wine 5 vii
Glycerine .-, ij
M and take a tablespoonful before meals. This is a natural
Tonic. It cures Dysmonorrhea and after pains, and
also suppression of the monthly.
Another —
II Strychnia Sulph. gr. i
Quinine Sulph. 3 i
Ferrii Chlor. 5 iij
Glycerine g viij
^4- and take a teaspoonful in plenty of water after meals. •
Phosphorus, in drop doses of the tincture in water, three or four
times daily, is a thorough Tonic for the Brain and Nervous System.
Strychnia, in two drop doses of a 1% solution in water, before
meals, is a good Tonic for all nervous conditions.
Gray's Glycerine Tonic Comp., from two to four teaspoonfuls in
water before meals, is a very excellent tonic.
Iodine tincture, in two drop doses in plenty of water, before
meals, is excellent for patients whose appetite is good but continue
thin in flesh. Hence it is good in poorly nourished children with thin
wrinkled necks, and in Marasmus.
Epsom Salts, taken in two teaspoonful doses in cold water once
or twice each week, before breakfast, will soon make the belly fat
and plump. It is a Tonic for the absorbents of the intestines.
TONICS 287
Never give Cod-liver Oil to any patient, unless you want to ruin
him. It is ruinous to the digestion and does more harm than good.
Real Cod-liver Oil is a very rare article in this country. The so-
called Cod-liver Oils are mostly adulterations and nostrums.
Malt Extracts, if properly made, are the best Tonics which we
can offer to a patient. Most preparations of Malt are sweet and
sickening, or gummy and mucilagenous, and, therefore, very dis-
tasteful to the patient. But when properly prepared and having the
addition of Hop Extract, are a most excellent Tonic and food. A
little thought will convince one of the value of this statement. Malt
contains a property called Diastase and this is identical with the
salivary ferment of the mouth, and acts the same upon all starchy
foods, converting them into sugar. In addition to Diastase there is
formed, during the malting process, a property known as Peptase
and Para-Peptase. These change the proteids of Malt into peptones
during the mashing process. It is this that gives nutritive value to
beer obtained from Malt. Malt Extracts, if properly prepared, there-
fore, contains a liquid more nutritious and demulcent than that ob-
tained from any other cereal. When hops and hop extracts are
added to the malt-beer, it gives it a tonic property, and renders it
more valuable in Debility. Hops and Hop Extracts are known as an
invaluable Tonic in local or general Debility, Nervous Derangement,
Dyspepsia, Anaemia, Mal-nutrition, and Mal-assimilation, sleepless-
ness, Loss of Appetite, Tremors, and Irritability. The best and most
valuable preparation of this kind in the market as well as the most
inexpensive, is made by The Schlitz Brewing Company of Milwau-
kee. I have carefully examined into the methods and manufacture
of this product, and can certify to it as scientific. It should be taken
with, or after the meal, three times daily. For the Diarrhoea and
Mal-nutrition of children it should be mixed in milk. As a galacta-
gogue for nursing mothers, it has no equal. It is pleasant to the
taste and has none of the sickening and nauseating sweefness of
most Malt Extracts.
TISSUE SALTS.
(a) Silicea, in minute doses (like Calcium sulph.) is the true
remedy for Ailments attended with pus formation — Empyema — Puru-
lent discharges — Suppurative fever — Suppurative inflammation of
bone or joint — Hip joint disease — Chronic enlargement of glands
with suppuration — Broken breast — Fistula — Felon — Pustule, boil,
carbuncle — Burn and scald, suppurating — Ulcerative Chilblains —
Ulcers in general — Open Cancer — Blood Tumor upon the scalp of
new-born infants — Hard lumps upon the scalp — Fontanels open —
Brain fag — Purulent discharges from the eyes — Inflammation of the
lachrymal sac — Hypopyon — Cataract — Ulceration of the cornea —
Weak sight after diphtheria — Swelling in the ear — Thick yellow
discharge from the ear — Ozsena with bone decay — Bronchorroea —
Xight sweats — Night spasms, epileptic — Hardening of tissues —
Enchondroma — Induration of the tongue — Induration of the testes
— Dry, hard eruptions — Small, hard boils — Eczema from impure
vaccine.
(b) Ferric phosphate — The first remedy in all Congestions.
Inflammations, and Inflammatory Fevers, before effusion takes place:
parts tender and painful to pressure, and pains worse from motion —
Headache, specific — Vertigo — Xose bleed — Painful Diarrhoea — Un-
digested stools — Vomiting of food — Suppression of urine — Stiff neck
ta from a chill. Typhoid and Typhus Fevers: first stage (hyperemia)
290 TISSUE SALTS
Ferrum phos.; second stage (infiltration) Potassium chlori; third
stage (ulceration) Calcium sulph. "Thus we lay hold directly upon
the process of the disease, control and cure it."
(c) Potassium chlori — The second remedy in all inflammatory
ailments; that is, during effusion, exudation, engorgement,
formation of false membrane; tongue coated white, pains worse
during rest — Diphtheria — Croup — - Hoarseness — Hawking up
phlegm — Bronchitis — Pneumonia — Scarlet fever — Measles — Small-
pox — Shingles — Cycosis — Dandruff — Engorgement of glands — En-
larged tonsils — Mumps — Orchitis — Encephalitis — Meningitis — Hy-
drocephalus.
(d) Calciuc sulph — The third remedy in all inflammatory ailments;
that is, during suppuration, formation of abscess and ulceration.
(e) Calcium phos — Anaemia — Chlorosis — Scrofula — Gouty
Diathesis — Delay in teething — Open fontanels.
(f) Potassium sulph — Ailments attended with yellow, slimy
tongue — Yellow scales or scabs on the skin — Yellow, slimy dis-
charges from eyes, ears, nose, chest or other parts — Assists in the
process of desquamation after eruptive diseases.
(g) Sodium sulph — Derangement of the system attended "with
bilious conditions; vomiting bile, greenish tongue, bitter taste, exces-
sive flow of urine — (Edema — CEdematous inflammation — Dropsy,
especially after scarlet fever.
TISSUE SALTS 291
(h) Potassium phos — Ailments of pale, sensitive, peevish persons,
with brownish yellow tongue, foul taste, four eructations, offen-
sive breath, fetid perspiration, putrid discharges, Diarrhoea —
Dysentery — Gangrenous conditions — Diphtheria — Scarlet fever —
Smallpox — Brain softening — Melancholy — Insanity — Hysteria —
Bleeding gums — Purpura Hsemorrhagica, septic bleeding, dark, thin
blood — Collapse of cholera or typhoid fever, face blue — Croup in last
extremity, face livid — (Edema of the lungs, livid countenance —
Whooping cough, choking, with blue face — Convulsions from fright
— Feeble labor pains — Menstrual irregularities of pale, feeble ladies
— Weak sight after diphtheria.
(i) Magnesia phos — All ailments purely nervous and spasmodic
— Spasmodic Cough — Spasmodic Stricture — Spasmodic Colic —
Menstrual Colic, bending double — Spasm of the glottis — Tetanus
— Lockjaw — Cramp — Chorea — Brain troubles of teething with green
glairy stools — Spasms of the eyelids — Squint — Seeing sparks, colors
and things double — Pure Neuralgia; pains relieved by warmth and
pressure.
(j) Sodium phos — All ailments with acidity, sour taste, vomit,
stool — Yellow scabs — Green, slimy, catarrhal discharges.
DOSES.
MINIMAL AND MAXIMAL.
Bv Bernard Gordon, M. D.
MEDICINES
GRAINS
GRAMMES
Pi Absinthium
* " Extractum
* " Tinctura
Acacia
Mucilago
Syrupus
*Acetanilid
*Acetonum
Acidum
Aceticum Dil
Arseniosum
Liq
Benzoicum
Boricum
Carbolicum
Chrysophanicum
Citricum
Syrup
Gallicum
Hydriodic Dil
Syrup
Hydrobromic Dil
Hydrochloric Dil
Hydrocyanic Dil
(cautiously)
Lacticum
Nitricum Dil
Nitro-Hydrochlor. Dil.
Osmicum (1% Sol.) . . .
Phosprohic Dil
gr. 15-40
2-8
gtt. 15—30
Ad. lib.
do
do
See Anti
gtt. 5—20
fl. 31 or more
1/30—1/10
gtt. 4—10
gr. 8—25
gr. 5 — 15
gr. 1/6-1 in pill
See Ohrysa
gr. 8—30
3V2-1
gr. 5—20
gtt. 10—30
gtt. 20—40
gtt. 8—15
gtt. 1—3
fl. oy 2 — 2
gtt. 5—20
gtt. 5— 8 1
gtt. 5— 15 1
gtt. 10 — 30|
1.00—2.50
0.20—0.50
1.00—2.00
febrin.
0.30-
-1.25
4.00
0.002—0.006
0.24—0.50
0.50—1.50
0.30—1.00
0.01—0.06
robin
0.50—2.00
15.00—30.00
0.30—1.30
0.50—2.00
1.25—2.50
1.00—2.00
0.50—1.00
0.06—0.20
2.00—8.00
0.30—1.30
0.30—0.50
0.30—1.00
0.65—2.00
♦Unofficinal— not included in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia.
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DOSES
MEDICINES
I I
GRAINS GRAMMES
I I
Acidum Salicylicum
Sclertinicum
Succinicum
Sulphuricum Arom
Dil
Sulphurosum
Tannicum
Trochisci.
Tartaricum
* " Valerianicum
Aconitia (Crystallized)....
Aconitum (root)
Abstractum . . .
Extractum
Fluid..
Tinctura
*Adonidinum
Aether Aceticus
Fortior
Hydriodic
Nitrosi Spts
Spts
" Comp
" Sulphuricus
*Agaricinum
: Alanin
Allium '
Syrupus
*Allyl Tri bromide
Aloe. (Socotrina)
gr. 5— 15
See Ergo
gr. 3—8
gtt. 10—20
do
gtt. 5—60
gr. 2—10
gr. 1 in each
gr. 8—60
gr. 3
1/240
gr. 1— 2|
gr. 1/6— 1|
gr. %— %|
tin.
..(lax)|
(puig)l
Extractum aq
et Asaf oet Pil
et Ferri Pil
et Mastiches Pil ... .
et Myrrhae Pil
Tinctura
Pilulae
gtt.
gtt. 1— 10 j
gr. 1/12— % |
gtt. io— a. 5y 2 |
gtt. 10— fl. 5% I
gtt. 10— 15 1
fl. 5V 6 — 2|
fl. 51— 4|
fl. 3% — 1|
do
gr. 1/12— % |
gr. 1/30— 1/12J
3y 2 — 21
fl. 51— 2 1
gtt. 5— 10 1
gr. 2-3|
gr. 10— 20 j
gr. 2— 10 1
2—5 pills |
1—3 pills |
1—4 pills |
3—6 pills !
fl. 51— 2 j
1—5 pills j
0.30—1.00
0.20—0.50
0.60—1.30
do
0.30—4.00
0.15—0.60
0.065
0.50—4.00
0.20—0.50
0.00025
0.06—0.12
0.01—0.06
0.01—0.02
0.03—0.12
0.03—0.30
0.005—0.02
0.25—2.00
0.25—2.00
0.30—0.50
0.65—8.00
4.00—16.00
0.50—4.00
do
0.005—0.01
0.002—0.005
2.00—8.00
4.00—8.00
0.30—0.65
0.10—0.20
0.65—1.30
0.13—0.65
4.00—8.00
*Unofficinal— not included in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia.
DOSES
295
MEDICINES
GRAINS
GRAMMES
Aloe. Purificate,
Tinctura
..(lax) |
(purg) ;
Vinum
Aloin
Althaea
Syrupus
Alumen
Ammoniacum
Mistura
Ammoniae Aqua
Spiritus
Arom..
* " Anisati Liq
Ammonii Acetatis Liq
Benzoas
Bromidum
Carbonas
Chloridum
Troch.
Iodidum
Phosphas
Picras
Valerianas
Amygdalae Amarae Aqua..
Ol...
Oleum Express.
'Mistura
Syrupus
*Amylene Hydrate
Amy] Nitrite
Amylum Iodatum
*Anethum
* " Aqua
* " Oleum
*Anilin Sulphas
Anisum
Aqua
(dil)
gr. 2— 8|
fl. oY 2 — 1'|
fl. 52— 4|
fl. 51—4!
gr. 1—3 J
Ad lib.
fl. 51— 4|
gr. 8— 15 J
gr. 6— 30|
fl. 52— 8 J
gtt: 5— 30 j
gtt. 10— 30 1
fl.3%— 1|
gtt. 2— 12|
fl. 5^— 4|
gr. 10— 30 1
gr. 3— 30 1
gr. 3—10;
gr. 5— 10 J
1 or 2 tr|
gr. 3— 5 J
gr. 10—40)
gr. i4—l|
gr. 2-8|
fl. 52— 4|
gtt %— %|
fl. 51— 8 J
fl. Vk— 8 1
fl. 51—41
fl. 8J4— i
gtt. 1— 5|
51—4
gr. 5— 30 j
fl. 51— 4|
gtt. 2— 4|
gr. 1—3 1
gr. 10— 30 1
fl. 51—4!
0.13—0.50
2.00—4.00
8.00—32.00
4.00—16.00
0.06—0.25
4.00—16.00
0.50—1.00
0.40—2.00
8.00—30.00
0.30—2.00
0.50—2.00
1.00—4.00
0.06—0.65
2.00—16.00
0.60—2.00
0.20—2.00
0.20—0.65
0.30—0.60
oches
0.20—0.30
0.60—2.60
0.015—0.065
0.13—0.50
8.00—16.00
0.015—0.032
4.00—30.00
16.00—200.00
4.00—16.00
1.00—4.00
0.03—0.15
4.00—16.00
0.32—2.00
4.00—16.00
0.065—0.13
0.065—0.20
0.65—2.00
4.00—16.00
: Unofficinal — not included in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia.
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DOSES
MEDICINES
GRAINS
GRAMMES
-I
••I
..I
Anisum Oleum
Spiritus
Anthemis
*Antifebrin
Antimonial Powder
Antimonii et Potass Tart (exp.) .
(emet)
Pilulae Comp
Sulphuratum Aureum
Vinum
♦Antipyrin
*Apiol
Apocynum Cannabinum
* Apocynin
Apomorphia Hydrochloras
Argentum Iodidum
Nitras
Oxidum
*Armorica
Arnicae Radix
Extractum
Fluid
Tinctura
Florum Tinctura
Arsenici et Hydrarg. Iodid Liq
Iodidum
Asafoetida
Mistura
Pilula
Tinctura
Asclepias (Tuberosa)
Aspidium
Atropina
Liq
Valerianas. .
Sulphas
Liq.
«' " Sol,
gtt. 5—15
31—2
5ft— 1|
gr. 3— 15|
gr. 3-8|
gr. 1/16— % |
gr. 1— 1%|
1—3 pillsl
gr. 1— 2|
fl. oYe— 1|
gr. 15— 30|
gtt. 3— 10 1
gr. 15— 30|
gr. 1~3|
gr. 1/10— % |
gr. 1— 2|
gr. %— 2|
gr. %— 2|
5y 4 — 1
gr. 5— 20|
gr. 3— 5|
gtt. 10— 20|
gtt. 15— f 3% |
gbt.15— fl.3%|
gtt. 3— 10|
gr. 1/20— y 5 1
gr. 5 — 15 1
fl. 5%— 1|
gr. 3 in|
a. 3y 4 — 1|
3^4— 1|
See Fil]
gr. 1/90
gtt. 2—3
gr. 1/90 |
do |
gtt. 2—3;
gtt. 1—21
0.30—1.00
4.00—8.00
2.00—4.00
0.20—1.00
0.25—0.52
0.004—0.008
0.06—0.09
0.06—0.13
0.65—4.00
1.00—2.00
0.25—0.6
1.00—2.00
0.065—0.20
0.006— C.0i2
0.065—0.13
0.015—0.13
0.015—0.13
1.00—4.00
0.30— .1.30
0.20—0.32
0.32—0.65
0.50—2.00
0.50—2.00
0.20—0.60
0.003—0.012
0.32—1.00
16.00—32.00
each pill.
1.00—4.00
1.00—4.00
ix Mas.
0.0007
0.12—0.20
0.0007
db
0.12—0.20
0.065—0.130
*Unofficinal— not included in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia.
DOSES
297
1
MEDICINES
GRAINS
GRAMMES
Atirantii Corticis Conf
1
Ad Lib.
fl. 51—2
do
gtt. 15—30
fl. 32—3
fl. 31—2
fl. 31—2
3V2— 1
fl. 31—2
do
gr. 1/30—1/15
gr. 1/20—1/10
Ad Lib.
gr. 10—60
fl. 5%
do
gr. 1—2
gr. 1—2
gr. 1/2—I
gr. 1/4-I
gr.i,4— 1
gtt. 2—4
gtt. 8—30
gtt. 5—10
gtt. 20—30
fl. 31/.—2
gr. 15—30
fl. 31,4—1
gr. 2—5
gr. 1 — 4
fl. 31/.—1
gr. 5—10
do
do
31,4— y 2
gr. 5—30
gr.2'
" " Syrupus
4.00—8.00
Sprts
" Amari Ext. Fl
do
1.00—2.00
* " Infusum
60.00—90.00
* " " Comp
30.00—60.00
" Florum Syrupus . .
4.00—8.00
" " Aqua
16.00—32.00
Tinctura Amari
Dulcis
::: Aurum Chloridum
et Sodii Ghlo<r
4.00—8.00
do
0.002—0.004
0.003—0.006
Avenae, Farina
Azedarach
D Ral.samnm Peruvian urn
0.65—4.00
2.00
" Tolutanum
do
Belldonnae Folia
Radix
0.06—0.12
0.06—0.12
Abstractum
Bxtractum
Ale
0.03—0.06
0.015—0.06
do
Fluid
Tinctura
0.06—0.12
0.25—1.00
Benzinum
Benzoini Tinctura
Comp
*Berberis
* " Ext. Fluid
Bismuthi Citras
0.30—0.60
1.25—2.00
2.00—8.00
1.00—2.00
1.00—4.00
0.13—0.32
" et Ammon Cit
0.06—0.25
» " " " Liq
2.00—4.00
* " Oxidum .* . . .
0.33—0.65
" Subcarbonas
do
" Subnitras
do
* " Salicvlicum
1.00— 2.00
* " Tannas
0.32—2.00
* " Trochisci
"in each.
*Unoffioinal— not included in the U. S. Pharma
?opceia.
298
DOSES
.MEDICINES
GRAINS
GRAMMES
Bismuthi Valerianas. . .
Brayera
Infusum
Ext. Fluid
*Brayerin (Kosin)
•Bromoform
''Bromum
Bryonia
Tinctura
Bucha
Ext. Fluid
* " Infusum
* " Tinctura
*Bursa Pastoris Fl. Ext
Butyl
Caffeina
Citras
Hydrobromica
* " Natro-Benzoica
* " " Salicylica
* " Valerianas
Cajuputi Oleum
* " Spiritus
Calamus
Ext. Fl
* " Tinctura
Calx Chlorinata
* " " Liq
" Liq
" Sulphurata
" Syrupus
Calcium Bromidum
Carbon, Praec
Chloridum
" Hypophosphis
Phosph. Praec
Syr. Lacto Phos....
gr. Vz— 2|
0.032—0.13
52—41
8.00—16.00
fl. 3Y2— 1|
15.00—30.00
fl. 52— 4|
8.00—16.00
gr. 15— 45|
1.00—3.00
gtt. 2 — 6|
0.13—0.36
gr. %— 2|
0.032—0.13
gr. 20— 60 1
1.30—4.00
ft. 51—2.
4.00—8.00
gr. 15 — 30|
1.00—2.00
fl. 3%— 1|
2.00—4.00
fl. 51— 2|
30.00—60.00
fl. 52— 4 1
4.00—16.00
gtt. — 5— 20|
0.65—1.30
gr. 2— 10|
0.13—0.65
gr- 1-3|
0.065—0.20
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
gtt. 1— 10|
0.32—0.40
fl. 5i4—l|
1.00—4.00
5i4—l|
1.00—4.00
gtt. 5 — 15!
0.30—1.00
fl.01/2!
2.00
gr. 2— 6
0.13—0.40
fl. 5i4—l|
1 00—4.00
fl. 5^— 2|
16.00—64.00
| gr. 1/10—%|
0.006—0.03
gtt. 15— 60 1
1.00—4.00
gr. 15—301
1.00—2.00
gr. 10—40;
0.65—2.60
gr. 10—20!
0.65—1.30
gr. 10— 30|
0.65—2.00
do
do
fl. 51—41
4.00—16.00
*l"nofficinal— not included in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia.
DOSES
299
MEDICINES
GRAINS
GRAMMES
3%— 1
2.00—4.00
o%— 2
2.00—a.OO
gr. 10—30
0.65—2.00
gr. 5 — 15
0.32—1.00
gtt. 15—30
1.00—2.00
| fl. 3%— 2
16.00—64.00
n. 52—4
8.00—16.00
gr. 2—6
0.13—0.40
gr. 5—15
0.33—1.00
gr. 5—10
0.S0— 0.65
fl. 5V2-1
16.00—3^.00
gr. 3—5
0.20—0.30
gtt. 5—60
0.30—4.00
gr. 5—10
0.32—0.65
gr. 2—4
0.13—0.25
gr. %— 2
0.032—0.13
gtt. 5—10
0.20—0.40
gr. %— 2
0.032—0.13
gr. %— 1
0.015—0.06
gtt. 1—4
0.032—0.13
gtt. 10—60
0.32—2.00
gr. y 4 -l V
2 0.15—0.10
gr. 1-2
0.06—0.13
gtt. 3—10
0.07—0.80
gr. 2—10
0.13—0.65
gtt. y 2 — i
0.03—0.06
gtt. y 4 —i
0.015—0.065
fl. 51/e—l
0.32—4.00
31—4
4.00—16.00
gr. 10—30
0.65—2.00
fl. 51—2
4.00—8.00
do
do
fl. 5i/ 2 —l
2.00—4.00
31/4-1
1.00—4.00
fl. SI— 2
32.00—64.00
| gtt. 1—10
0.032—0.32
gr. 5—10
0.33—0.65
fl. 52—16
8.00—60.00
Calendula
Tinctura
Calumba
* " Extractum
Fl
* " Infusum
Tinctura
Cambogia
* " Pil. Comp
Camphora
Aqua
Monom bromata .
Spiritus
Canella
Cannabis Americana
Ext
Fl.
Indica
" Ext
" Fl
" Tinctura
*Cannabinonum
Cantharis
Tinctura
Capsicum
Ext. Fl
Oleoresina
Tinctura
Carbo Ligni
Cardomomum
Tinctura
Comp.
*Caroba Ext. Fl
Carum
* , " Aqua
Oleum
Caryophyllus
Infusum
'Unofficinal— not included in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia.
300
DOSES
MEDICINES
GRAINS
GRAMMES
gtt. 1—10
0.032—0.32
gr. 4— 8
0.25—0.50
fl. 3%— 1
2.00—4.00
gr. 10—30
0.65—2.00
fl. 51—3
32.00—96.00
fl. 3^—2
2.00—8.00
51—6
4.00—24.00
3%— 1
2.00—4.00
fl. 31—2
4.00—8.00
gr. 10—30
0.65—2.00
fl. 3V 2 — 1
2.00—4.00
gr. 10—30
0.65—2.00
fl. 5l— 2
30.00—60.00
ft. 51/2—3
2.00—12.00
gr. 1
0.065
gr. 1—5
0.06—0.30
gr. 1— 3
0.065—0.20
gr. 1—4
0.065—0.25
3%— 1
2.00—4.00
ft. 5V2-1
16.00—32.00
See Gynoc
ardiae Oil.
gr. 15—30
1.00—2.00
gr. 3—10
0.20—0.65
gr. 10—40
0.65—2.60
gtt. 4—8
0.13—0.25
3^—1
1.00—4.00
fl. 514—I
1.00—4.00
gr. 30—60]
2.C0— 4.00
gr. 10—20
0.65—1.30
gtt. 15—30
0.50—1.00
| A. 31—3
30.00—90.00
fl. 51—2
4.00—8.00
gr. 8—30
0.50—2.00
1 fl. 32
7.50
gr. 15—60
1.00—4.00
gtt. 5—30
0.32—2.00
f fl. 31—4
4.00—16.00
gtt. 5—60
0.30—4.00
Caryophyllus Oleum. . .
*Cascara Sagrada
* " Ext. Fl
Cascarilla
Iufusum
* " Tinctura
uassia Fistula
Castanea Vesca
Ext. Fl
*Castoreum
* " Tinctura...
Catechu
* " Infusum
Tinctura Comp
Trochisci
Caulophyllum
*Cerium Nitras
Oxalas
Cetraria
Decoctum
*Chaulmugra Oil
Chelidonium
* " Ext
Cnenepodium
. " Oleum. . .
Chimaphila
Ext. Fl
Chinoidinum
Chicata
Ext. Fl
* " Iufusum
Tinctura
Chloral Hydrate
* " Syrupus
*Chloralamid
*Chlorodyne
Chlorinii Aqua
Chloroform Purificat. .
*Unofficinal— not included in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia.
DOSES
301
MEDICINES
GRAINS
GRAMMES
Chloroform Mistura
Spiritus
* " Tinct. Comp
Chrysarobinum
Cimicifuga (Actea Racem.) . . .
Ext. Fl
Tinctura
*Cimicifugin
Cinchona
Flava
Pallida
Rubra
Ext. (yellow)
" Fl. (yellow)
* " Flava Decoc. (y.)
Infusum (yellow)
Tinctura (yellow)
Comp. (red)
Cinchonina Sulphas
Cinchonidina Sulphas
Cinnamomum
Aqua
" Oleum
Spiritus
Tinctura
*Coca Erythroxylon
*Cocainum Hydrochloricum. . .
Coccus
* " Tinctura
*Cochlearia Officinalis Spts
Codeina
Colchicum Radix
Ext
" Fl
Vinum
Semen
" Ext. Fl
Vinum
fl. 32—8
fl. oVq—1
do
gr. 20—25
3^4—1
fl. 51,4—1
fl. 5%— 4
gr. 1—2
gr. 10—60
do
do
do
gr. 5—30
fl. 514—I
fl. 51— 2
do
fl. 51— 4
do
gr. 3—30
do
gr. 10—20
fl. 31— 2
gtt. 1—3
gtt. 10—20
fl. 51—3
See Eryth
gr. i/e—1
gr. 1/6-1/2
fl. 51/6—1
gtt. 20—40
gr. 1—2
gr. 2—8
gr. 1—2
gtt. 2—8
gtt. 15—60
gr. 2—8
gtt. 2—8
fl. 5^2—2
8.00—32.00
0.25—4.00
do
1.30—1.60
1.00—4.00
do
2.00—16.00
0.065—0.13
0.65—4.00
do
do
do
0.32— 2.00
1.00—4.00
32.00—64.00
do
4.00—15.00
do
0.20—2.00
do
' 0.65—1.30
32.00—64.00
0.06—0.18
0.60—1.25
4.00—12.00
roxylon.
0.01—0.06
0.01—0.032
0.60—4.00
0.65—1.30
0.06—0.13
0.13—0.52
0.06—0.13
0.13—0.50
0.50—2.00
0.13—0.50
do
2.00—8.00
'Unofficinal— not included in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia.
302
DOSES
MEDICINES
GRAINS
GRAMMES
Colchicum Tincture
* " Colchicin
Colocynthis
Ext
" Comp
* " Pil. Comp
*Colocynthin
Conium
Abstractum
Ext. Fl
Alcohol
* " Succus
Tinctura
*Conina . . .'
*Convallaria Majalis Tinct
*Connvallarin
Copaiba
Massa
Oleum
Resina
Corandrum
Oleum
Cornus
Ext. Fl
*Cotoin
Creasotum
Aqua.-
* 4 ' Mistura
Cretae Mistura
Praeparata.
* " Pulv. Arom
Comp
Cum Opio
Trochisci
Crocus
Tinctura
Cubeba
* " Ext
do
gr. 1/60— 1/20|
St. 5— 10|
gr. y 2 — 3 1
gr. 5— 30|
1—3 pills I
gr. %— 1|
gr. y 2 — 4|
gr. 1—2
gtt. 1— 5|
gr. V 2 — 2|
fl. 5y 2 — li
fl. oVs— 1|
gr. 1/60 — 1/30J
gtt. 10— 20|
gr. y 2 — 1|
gr. y 8 — 1|
gr. 8— 40|
gtt. 8— 15 1
gr. 10— 20 1
gr. 20— 60|
gtt. 5— 10|
5%— 1|
fl. 3&— 1
gr. iy 2 -4|
gtt. 1—3 J
fl. 51 — 4|
fl. 54— 8|
do
gr. 10— 40 1
5y 2 -i|
gr. 8— 60 1
gr. 10— 20|
gr. 4 n I each,
gr. 10—301 0.65
do
0.001—0.003
0.33—0.65
0.003—0.20
0.32—2.00
0.015—0.065
0.03—0.25
0.06—0.12
0.06—0.33
0.03—0.13
2.00—4.00
0.50—4.00
0.001—0.002
0.30—0.60
0.03—0.06
0.50—4.00
0.50—2.50
0.25—0.50
0.65—1.30
1.30—4.00
0.20—0.40
1.00—4.00
do
0.01—0.25
0.065—0.20
4.00—16.00
16.00—32.00
do
0.65—2.60
2.00—4.00
0.50—4.00
0.65—1.25
0.25
2.00
fl. 31— 3 j
31— 31
gr. 8—30!
4.00—12.00
do
0.50—2.00
*Unofficinal— not included in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia.
DOSES
303
MEDICINES
I GRAINS
I I
GRAMMES
Cubeba Ext. Fl
Oleoresina
Oleum
'■ Tinctura
Trochisci
*Cuprum Carbonas
* C0.33—0.65
1.00—1.25
4.00—8.00
0.10—0.50
0.20—1.00
0.33—0.65
16.00—32.00
0.10—0.40
0.10—0.20
2.00—4.00
2.00—4.00
0.65—2.00
4.00—8.00
30.00—60.00
0.32—1.30
do
30.00—60.00
0.50—1.00
0.032— u.13
*Unofficinal— not included in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia.
DOSES
315
MEDICINES
GRAINS
I
| GRAMMES
Pepsinuria Liq
* " Vinum
Petroteum Reotif..
Aether
*Petroiselinum
". Oleum
*Phenacetinum
*Phenylureithanum
fl. Vk— 2
fl. 31—4
gtt. 5—10
See Ben
gr. 8—15
©tot. 2—5
gr. 7—11
See Eup
Phosphorus I ■ gr. 1/100—1/60
Oleum
Pilulae
Physostigma
Ext
Tinctura
Physostigminae Salicyl
gtt. 3—5
gr. 1/100 in
gr. 2—3
gr. 1/16— Ve
gtt. 20—40
;r. 1/120—1/60
Sulphas I gr. 1/120—1/60
Phytolaecae Radix
*Phytolaccinum
*Piehi (Fab. Imbric Ext.
Fl.)
gr. 1—30
gr. 1V 2 — 3
gtt. 15—60
Picrotoxixnum j gr. 1/120 — 1/60
Pilocarpus (Folia for infus.)
Ext. Fl
Pilocarpinae Hydrochl
Nitras
Pilula Oathart. Oomp
Pimenta
" Oleum
Piper
* " Confectio
" Oleoresina
Piperina ;
*Piscidae Erythr. Ext. Fl . . . ,
Pix Liquida
" " Syrupus
Plumbum Aoetas
" Iodidum
" Nitras
Pil. Cum. Opio ,
gr. 30—60
fl. 314—1/2
gr. Vs—Vs
do
1—3
gr. 10—40
gtt. 3—6
gr. 5—20
31—2
gtt. 1—2
gr. 3—8
fl. 0Y2— 1
3y 2 — 1
fl. 51— 2
gr. 1—3
gr. V2— 4J
gr. %— %|
gr. 2—31
15.00—60.00
4.00—16.00
0.33—0.65
zinum.
0.50—1.00
0.12—0.30
0.40—0.70
horinum.
0.0006—0.001
0.18—0.30
each. 0.0006
0.13—0.20
.004—0.01
1.25—2.50
0.0005—0.001
0.0005—0.001
0.06—2.00
0.10—0.20
1.00—4.00
0.0005—0.001
2.00—4.00
1.00—2.00
0.008—0.02
do
Pills.
0.65—2.60
0.18—0.36
0.32—1.30
4.00—8.00
0.06—0.12
^.20—0.50
2.00—4.00
2.00—4.00
4.00—8.00
0.06—0.20
0.03—0.26
0.015—0.03
0.13—0.20
! Unofficinal— not included in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia.
316
DOSES
MEDICINES
GRAINS
GRAMMES
Podophyllum
Abstractum . .
Ext
" Fl
Resina
*Podophyllinum
Potassae Liq
" Sulphurata
Potassi Acetas
" Arsen. Liq
" Bicarbonas
Bitart
" Bromidum
" Carbonas
" Chloras
" " Trochisci . ,
Citras
" Liq
" Mist
" Cyanidum
et Sodii Tart
" Ferrocyanid
" Hypophosphis
" Iodidum
" Nitras
" Permanganas
. " Sulphus
Sulphis
" Tarti*as
Prinos
*Propb.ylaminum
Prunus Virginiana
Ext. Fl.
" Iufusum
" Syrupus
* Pulque
Pulsatilla
Pulvis Arom
gr. 1—30
gtt. 5—10
gr. 1—3
gtt. 5—15
gr. H— V 2
gr. V 4 — 1
gtt. 10—30
gr. 2—10
gr. 20—60
gtt. 2—10
gr. 20—60
31—8
gr. 10—60
gr. 10—30
gr. 10—30
gr. 5 in
gr. 20—40
fl. 32—4
fl.5%— 1
gr. 1/16—%
3%— 1
gr. 10—15
gr. 10—30
gr. 2—20
gr. 10—20
gr. y 2 -i
3V 2 — 4
3^—1
31—31
3V 2 -1
See Trime
5%— 1
fl. 3y 2 — i
fl. g2—3
fl. 32—4
gr. iy 2 — 6j
gr. 10— 30|
0.06—2.00
0.33—0.65
0.06—0.20
0.30—1.00
0.008—0.03
0.015—0.06
0.60—2.00
0.15—0.63
1 30—4.00
0.12—0.60
1.30—4.00
4.00—32.00
0.60—4.00
0.60—2.00
0.60—2.00
each. 0.30
1.30—2.60
8.00—16.00
15.00—30.00
0.004—0.032
15.00—30.00
0.65—1.00
0.65—2.00
0.13—1.30
0.65—1.30
0.032—0.06
2.00—16.00
1.00—4.00
4.00—30.00
2.00—4.00
thylamdn.
2.00—4.00
2.00—4.00
60.00—90.00
8.00—16.00
30.0—45.00
0.10—0.40
0.65—2.00
*Unofficinal— not included in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia.
DOSES
317
MEDICINES
GRAINS
GRAMMES
Pulvis Efferv. Comp.
Pyrethrum
" Tinctura..
*Pyrodine
Quassia
Ext
"PI
* " Iufusum
" Tinctura
*Quassinum
*Quebracho (Blanco) Ext. Fl.
Quercus Alba
* " " Decoot
Quinina
* " Arsenias
Bisulphas
" Hydrobromias
Hydrochloras
* " Salicylas
" Sulphas
* " Tannas
* " Tinctura
Valerianas
* " Vinum
Quinidina Sulphas
*Q'Uinoidinum
*Quinolinum Tartar
Resorcin .
*Rhamnus
Purshiana.
Succus
Syrupus. . .
Rheum
Ext
" PI
et Sodae Mist.
Infusum
1— 2Po
3%— 1
gu. 1 — 5
gr. 8—12
5%— lj
gr. 3— 5 1
gtt. 5—10
fl. 5I— 2
fl. 51—2
gr. %— %
fl. 31—2
gr. 10—40
fl. SI— 3
gr. 1—20
gr. 1/12—%
gr. 1—20
gr. 1—3
gr. 1—20
gr. 3—8
gr. 1—20
gr. 3—30
fl. 31,4—1
gr. 1—2
fl. Vk— 1
gr. 1—20
gr. 1%— 8
gr. 8—30
gr. iy 2 — 8
gr. 15—60
See Casca
fl. 32—4
fl. 51— 2
gr. 5—30
gr. 5—10
gtt. 5—30
fl. 0V2—I
fl. 31—2
wders.
2.00—4.00
0.03—0.20
0.50—0.75
1.00—4.00
0.20—0.30
0.30—0.60
32.00—64.00
4.00—8.00
0.02—0.05
4.00—8.00
0.65—2.60
32.00—96.00
0.06—1.30
0.005—0.01
0.06—1.30
0.06—0.20
0.06—1.30
0.20—0.50
0.06—1.30
0.20—2.00
1.00— 4.00
0.06—0.13
15.00—30.00
0.06—1.30
0.10—0.50
0.50—2.00
0.10—0.50
1.00—4.00
ra Sagrada.
8.00—16.00
32.00—64.00
0.32—2.00
0.30—0.65
0.30—2.00
2.00—4.00
32.00—64.00
*Unofficinal— not included in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia.
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BttAUffMlE
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ffl.31— 2|
fl.3%— II
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DOSES
med: .
DRAINS
Saocharum
Lactis
Saccharinum
*Sagapenuni
Salix
Salicinum
*Salolum
Salvia
Sambucus
Aqua
Sanguinaria
Aoetum
dLFI
Tinetura
* Sail guiuar mum
Santalnm
Oleum
♦Santalum Album
Saiitoiiica
♦Santoninoxime
Santoninum
Sapo
* ■ Pil. Comp
*Sarsae Decoctum
Sarsaparilla
Decoc. Comp . .
Ext.F.
M - Comp.
- up. Comp.
Sassafras Oleum
Scammonium
Purum
Conf eetio
* " Pulr. Comp..
Resina
Scilla
Acetum
• Ex:. Fl
Ad lib.
do
s: -* —
%r. 10—30
',—
gr. 20—30
gr. 8—3
gr.20— 30
51—2
n. -.—
gr. 1—20
fL 514—3
su J— d
BT.%— M
51—4
-' .'y— 30 J
51— 2 j
gr. 10— 30|
gr.l— 4
gr. U-d
gr. 5—30
0.015— .
0.65— _
1.00—,
1.30— 2
0.50—
1.30—
I — 8
8.00—-.
—1.30
loo— :_
. . —
2.00—
0.01— -
4.00—16.00
1.30—
4.00—
0.65—
0.06—0.25
0.06—
0.30—2.00
1 Opium j in 5 gr. Mass.
fl. 54— 6 1 120.00— IS
5 1 -— 1 2.00— 4.00
fl. 54— 1- —1:
^Unofficana: — not inetaded r.armacopceiA.
fl.5^— 1
2.00— 4.01.
do
do
fl. 5—,
8.00 — 16.00
gtt. 2—10
•.•6—1 .
gr. 10—30
0.65— .
gr. 5 — 15
0.33—1.00
gr. 15 — 45 i
1.00—3.00
gr. 10—
0.65—1.30
gr.,-:
. ^0.52
gr. 1—
0.06— 1
gtl -* —
LOG—-:
T-: 2—3
O.li—
320
DOSES
MEDICINES
GRAINS
GRAMMES
fl. .11—2
4.00—8.00
gr. 5—10
0.33—0.65
fl. 3*4— 1
1.00—4.00
do
do
gtt. 10—20
0.60—1.25
gr. 10—15
0.60—1.00
fl. 32—4
60.00—120.00
fl. 31—2
4.00—8.00
gr. 1—5
0.06—0.32
3^-1
2.00—4.00
fl. 3^—1
2.00—4.00
See Er
gota.
gr. 10—20
0.65—1.30
gr. 1—3
0.06—0.20
gtt. 1—5
0.06—0.30
fl-31— 3
30.00—90.00
fl. 51—2
4.00—8.00
fl. 3%— 2
2.00—8.00
3^—2
2.00—8.00
31—2
4.00—8.00
fl. 51—4
4.00—16.00
fl.32— 4
64.00—128.00
do
do
fl. 51—1%
32.00—48.00
fl. 32—4
8.00—16.00
fl. 32—8
8.00—30.00
3V4-V2
100—2.00
fl. 3%—%
1.00^2.00
fl. 31—2
32.00—64.00
fl. 51—4
4.00—16.00
fl. 51—4
4.00—16.00
gr. 15—30
1.00—2.00
fl. 3y 2 — 2
2.00—8.00
5^—2
2.00—8.00
gtt. Vs— %
0.0008—0.016
fl. 5^—1
2.00—4.00
51—2
4.00—8.00
gtt. 5—20
0.33—1.30
*Scilla Oxymel
* " Pilulae Comp
Syrupus
" Comp
" Tinctura
Scoparius
* " Decoc
* " Succus
*Scoparinirai
Scutellaria
Ext. Fl
Secale Cornutum
Senega
Abstract um
" Ext. Fl
* " Iuf usum
Syrupus
* " Tinctura
Senna
Confectio
Ext. Fl
Infusum
Infusum Comp ....
Mistura Comp
Syrupus
Tinctura
Serpentaria
Ext. Fl
* " Infusum
Tinctura
Sesami Oleum
*Simaruba ,
*Simulo Tinct
Sinapis
Oleum Vol
Sodae Chlor. Liq
" Citro Tart. Efferv.
Liq
*Unofficinal— not included in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia.
DOSES
321
MEDICINES
GRAINS
GRAMMES
Sodae Valerianas . . .
Sodii Acetas
" Arsenias
" Arsenias Diq. . .
Benzoas
" Bicarb
" Bicarb. Troch. .
" Bisulphis
" Boras
" Bromidum
Carbonas
Carbonas Exsic.
Chloras
" Chloridum
" et Pot. Tart
Hypophosphis. .
" Hyposulphis
" Iodidum
::: " Lactas
" Nitras
Phosphas
" Pyrophosphas. .
" Salicylas
" Santonas
Santonas Troch
" * Sulphas
" Sulphas ,
" Sulpho Carbol..
*Solanin
gr. 1—5 1
3%— a
gr. 1/12— %
gtt. 3— 5|
gr. 10— 23 1
gr. 10— 60 1
gr. 5 in
gr. 8—30
gr. 8—45
3^—2
gr. 10— 30 j
gr. 5 — 15
gr. 8—24
gr. 10—31
See Pot.et
gr. 10—30
gr. 10—20
gr. 20—30
51—4
gr. 10—40
31-2
oVe—1
0V2—I
gr. 8—10
gr. 1 in
5V2— 1
gr. 30— 60 1
gr. 15— 30 1
gr. 1%_5
♦Sparteinum Sulphuricum 1 gn 1/12—1%
Spigelia
" Ext. Fluid
Spiritus Frum. (Whiskey)
* " Genevae (Gin)
" Recti fie (Alcohol) . . .
" Vini Gal. (Brandy).
-Stigmatis Maidis Ext. Fl
Stillingia
ti
31— 2 1
51—21
0.06—0.33
0.50—8.00
0.005—0.02
0.18—0.30
0.65—1.50
0.60—4.00
each. 0.33
0.50—2.00
0.50—3.00
2.00—8.00
0.65—2.00
0.33—1.00
0.50—1.50
0.65—30.00
Sodii Tart.
0.65—2.00
0.65—1.30
1.30—2.00
4.00—16.00
0.65—2.60
30.00—60.00
0.65—4.00
2.00—4.00
0.50—0.65
each. 0.065
15.00—30.00
2.00—4.00
1.00—2.00
0.10—0.30
0.005—0.10
4.00—8.00
4.00—8.00
At d is I cr<etion.
do
do
do
gtt. 8—15
gr. 15—30
'Unofficial— not included in the U. S. Pharmacopeia"
do
do
do
0.50—1.00
1.00—2.00
322
DOSES
MEDICINES
GRAINS
GRAMMES
Stillingia Ext. Fl j
Stramonii Folia I
Semen |
Ext |
Ext. Fl |
Tinctura I
*Strophanthus Tinct. (1:20) j
Strychnia I gr.
* " Liq |
Sulphas gr.
Styrax ". j
*Sulphonal I
*Sulphur Confect.
Iodidum
Lotum
Praecipltatum
Sublimatum . .
Sumbul
Tinctura
Syrupus *
Hypop:io- phitum
Hypopl ospitum Cum Ferro.. *
Tabacum
Tamarindus
Tanacetum
* " Oleum
Taraxacum
* " Decoctum
Ext
Ext. Fl
* ". Succus
*Terebenum
Terebinthina
Canadensis
*Terpinum
Confectio,
Oleum . . .
Hydratum
*Thallinum Sulph
gr. 15—45
gr. 1—3
gr. y 2 — 2
gr. %— %
gtt. 1—2
gtt. 20—30
gtt. 5—10
1/60—1/12
gtt. 5—15
1/60—1/12
gr. 8—23
gr. 15 — 45
51—2
gr. 1— 1%
3%— 4
31—3
do
gr. 8—23
gtt. 20— 60
Ad Lib.
fl. 51—2
do
gr. 1—6
31—8
3y 2 — 1
gtt. 1—4
51—2
fl.52
gr. 20—60
fl. 31—3
11. 32—4
gtt. 5—15
31,4—1
do
3y 3 — 1
gr. 5— fl. 31
gr. 3—20
gr. 4—8
1.00—2.80
0.06—0.20
0.03—0.13
0.016—0.03
0.06—0.12
1.25—2.00
0.30—0.60
0.001—0.005
0.20—1.00
0.001—0.005
0.50—1.50
1.00—3.00
4.00—8.00
0.06—0.10
2.00—16.00
4.00—12.00
do
0.50—1.50
0.65—2.00
4.00—8.00
do
0.06—0.40
4.00—30.00
2.00—4.00
0.05—0.20
4.00—8.00
60.00
1.30—4.00
4.00—12.00
8.00—16.00
0.30—1.00
1.00—4.00
do
1.50—4.00
.0.30—4.00
0.20— 1.3d
0.25—0.50
'Unofficial— not included in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia.
DOSES
323
MEDICINES
GRAINS
GRAMMES
*Thallinum Tartr
*Thebainum
Thuja
Thymol
Thymi Oleum . .
Tolutanum
Syrupus
Tinctura
"Toxicodendron
Tragacantha
Mucilage
Pulv. Comp
*Trifolium
* " Ext
*Trimethylarninuni
Hydrochloratum,
Triticum
Ext. Fl
Trituratio Elatei ini
*Trypsinum
*Tulipdnum
do
gr. %— 1
3%— 1
gr. 1—1 %
gtt. 1—10 1
do
o.oi— o.oe
100—4.00
0.06—0.10
0.03—0.32
u
See Balsa I mum Tolut.
Ad Lib.
II. 51—2
gr. 1^—5
*Ulexinum
Ulmus . . . .
jr. Id— 30
fl. 31—2
;r. 30j — 60
gr. 8—15
do
gtt. 2- -5
gtt. 2—5
51—2
n. 53—6
See Ela
See Pan
gr. 1/13
4.00—8.00
0.03—0.32
1.00—2.00
4.00—8.00
2.00—2.00
0.50—1.00
do
0.13—0.30
0.13—0.30
4.00—8.00
12.00—24.00
terinum.
creatinum.
0.004
* " Decoctum
♦Uranium Nitricum.
*Urethanum
Ustilago
Uva Ursi
Ext. Fl
* " Infusion...
V
Valeriana
Abstract .
Ext. Fl..
Infusion.
Oleum. . .
Tinctura.
gr. 1/20— 1/16|
gr. 8—301
fl. 52-4
gr. %— 1
5^4—1
5^4—1
3^4—1
fl. 51/2—I
d. 5l— 2
51/4—I
gr. 10—20
fl. 0V2— 1
A. 5l— 2
gtt. 4—5
fl. 51—4
0.003—0.004
0.50—2.00
60.00—120.00
0.01—0.06
1.00—4.00
1.00—4.00
1.00—4.00
2.00—4.00
30.00—60.00
1.00—4.00
0.65—1.30
2.00—4.00
32.00—64.00
0.24—0.30
4.00—16.00
*Unofficinal— not included in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia.
324
DOSES
MEDICINES
GRAINS
GRAMMES
A. oV 2 — 1
2.00—4.00
gr. 1—3
0.06—0.20
gtt. 1—5
0.06—0.30
gr. 1/60—1/12
0.001—0.005
gr. 1 — 4
0.06—0.25
gtt. 1—5
0.06—0.30
gtt. 3—10
0.18—0.60
5%— 1
1.00—4.00
fl. 5%— 1
2.00—4.00
gr. 8—15
0.50—1.00
At dis
cretion.
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
gr. 30—60
2.00—4.00
See Curara
Woorara.
gr. 10—30
0.65—2.00
fl. 31/2—I
2.00—4.00
gtt. 3—15
0.20—1.00
gr. %— 3
0.03—0.20
gr. iy 2 —4
0.10—0.25
gr. 1/2—2
0.03—0.12
gr. 1/30—1/12
0.002—0.005
gr. 1/2-I
0.03—0.06
gr. 1/2-I
0.03—0.06
gr. 2—8
0.13—0.52
gr. I/20—1/3
0.003—0.02
gr. 1—30
0.06—2.00
gr. 1—2
0.06—0.13
gr. 10—20
0.65—1.30
gtt. 10—20
0.60—1.25
gtt. 1/2-I
0.03—0.06
fl. 31—2
| 4.00—8.00
gtt. 8—40
0.50—2.50
gr. 2 in
each. 0.13
Valeriana Tinctura Amm
Vanilla
Tinctura
Veratrina
Veratrum Viride
Ext. Fl.
Tinct. . .
Viburnum
Ext. Fl
*Vincetoxicum
Vinum Album
Fort
Aram
Portensis
" Rubrum
Xericum
Viola Tricolor
^^ *Woorara
X Xantoxylum
Ext. Fl
*Xylolum
2 Zincum Acetas
" Bromidum.
Chloridum...
* " Cyanidum...
* " Ferrocyanid .
* " Lactas
Oxidum
Phosphidum.
Sulphas
Valeriana
Zingiber
Ext. Fl....
Oleoresina.
Syrupus . . .
Tinctura . . .
Trochisci. .
*Unofficinal — not included in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia.
SOLUBILITY.
ONE PART DISSOLVES IN
Water
Alcohol
Ether
Acidum Arseiiiosum . . .
Benzoicum
Boracicum
Carbolicum
Citricum
Pyrogallicum . .
' x Salicylicum
Tannicum
Tartaricum
Alumen
Ammon. Broinidum. . .
Chloridum
Antifebrinum
Antimonii et Pot. Tart
Arbutinum (Uva Ursi).
Argenti Nitris
Atropiae Sulphas
Auri et Sodii Chlor
Borax (Sodii Boras)
Bromum
Antipyrinum ,
Caffeina
Calx Chlorata
Chloral
Cocainum Hydrochlor.
Codeina
Creasotum
Cupri Sulphas
Ferri Lacras
Sulphas
Hydrarg. Bichlor. Cor.
100
400
3
30
20
20
readily
1
1
3
600
5
2
1
4
12
....
3
4
200
10
20
8
16
1
12
1
3
2
18
40..
readily
1
1
80
50
20
readily
readily
5
10
80
100
4
50
2
20
3
25
readily
50
10
readily
50
300
readily
326
SOLUBILITY
ONE PART DISSOLVES IN
Water Alcohol Ether
Hydrarg. Cyan
Iodoformum
lodolum
lodum
Lithii Carbonas
Magnesii Sulphas. . . .
Morph. Hydrochlor. . .
Sulph
Paraldehydum
Physostigm. Salicyl . .
Plumbi Acetas
Potassi Acetas
" Bicarb
Bromid
Carbon
" Chlor
" Iodid
" Nitras
Permangan . . .
" Sulphas
Tartras
Pyridinum . . .
Quininae Hydrochlor
Sulphas
Resorcinum
Saccharinum
Saccharum
Saccharum Lactis —
Salolum
Santoninum
Sodii Acetas
Benzoas
" Bicarbonas
" Bromidum
" Carbonas
" Chloras
" Iodidum
" Nitras
20
5000 |
5000
]50
1
25
20
10
150
3
4
2
1
20
1
5
25
12
2
1
2
15
2
2
3
1
2
20
50
3
10
50
12
30
5
200
130
12
40
4 I
800
90
1
1
250
0,5
7
| ....
5
5000
50
3
30
3
50
SOLUBILITY
327
ONE PART DISSOLVES IN
Water Alcohol Ether
Sodii Pbosphas
Salicylas
" Sulphas
Strychnia
Sulph
Thallinum Sulph. . .
Thymol
Urethanum
Veratrina
Zinci Chloridum
" Sulpho Carbol
" Sulphas
10
1
....
1
6
1
4
....
100
100
100
100
7
100
1200
1
1
0,6
4
1
0,25
2
2
1 1
....
GLOSSARY.
Abnormal. Unnatural.
Abortion. Loss of Embryo.
Acne. Pimple.
Acute. Sharp. Recent.
Albuminuria. Albumen in the urine.
Amenorrhea. Suppression of menses.
Anaemia. Want of blood.
Anaesthesia. Insensibility.
Ankylosis. §tiff.
Ante. Forward.
Anthrax. Malignant carbuncle.
Antiseptic. Preventing decay.
Anus. Exit of the bowel.
Aphonia. Loss of voice.
Aphthae. Sore mouth.
Apoplexy. Hemorrhage in the brain or spine.
Asthma. Difficult breathing.
Atrophy. Wasting muscles.
Axilla. The arm-pit.
B
Blight's Disease. Disease of the kidney.
Bronchitis. Inflammation of the bronchial tubes.
Bronchocele. Thick neck. Goitre.
Calculi. Lime stones.
Cardiac. Of the heart.
Caries. Decay of a bone.
330 GLOSSARY
Catalepsy. A fit
Cataract. Opaque lens of the eye.
Cathartic. Physic.
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis. Inflammation of the covering of the
brain and spine.
Cervix. Mouth of the womb.
Chlorosis. Poor blood. Green sickness.
Chorea. St. Vitus' Dance.
Chronic. Old.
Clavus. Pain as if a nail were driven into the head.
Collapse. Fainting.
Condyloma. Fig-warts.
Cornea. The white of the eye.
Coryza. Acute catarrh of the nose.
Cyanosis. Blue disease of infants.
Cystitis. Inflammation of the bladder.
D
Desquamation. Scaling off.
Diabetes. Sugar in the urine.
Diaphragm. Petition between the belly and the thorax.
Disinfectant. That which makes pure.
Diuresis. Excessive flow of urine.
Douche. Injection for the vagina.
Duodenum. Short bowel next to the stomach.
Dysentery. ' Bloody stools.
Dysmenorrhea. Painful monthly.
Dyspepsia. Difficult digestion.
Dysphagia. Difficult swallowing.
Eclampsia. Fit in childbirth.
Ematiate. Becoming thin in flesh.
Emenagogue. That which produces a flow.
GLOSSARY. 331
Kmetic. To cause vomiting.
Emphysema. Air retained in the lung.
Empyema. Pus in the plural cavity.
Endo-carditis. Inflammation inside of the heart.
Endo-metritis. Inflammation inside the womb.
Enema. Injection into the bowel.
Enteritis. Inflammation of the bowel.
Enuresis. Wetting the bed.
Epilepsy. Convulsions.
Epistaxis. Xose bleed.
Epithelioma. Cancer.
Erysipelas. Inflammatory skin disease.
Extra. Outside.
Eczema. Salt rheum. Skin eruption.
F
Fecal. Stool.
Felon. Whitlow.
Fistula. Ulcer like a tube or pipe-sinus.
Flexion. To double up.
Furuncles. Crops of small boils.
G
Gangrene. Mortification.
Gastralgia. Pain in the stomach.
Gastritis. Inflammation of the stomach.
Goitre. Thick neck.
H.
Haemeturia. Blood in the urine.
Hectic. Poison fever.
Hemorrhage. Loss of blood.
Hemorrhoids. Piles.
Hepatic. Of the liver.
Hernia. Rupture.
332 GLOSSARY
Herpes. Tetter.
Hydrocele. Dropsy of the scrotum.
Hydrocephalus. Dropsy of the brain.
Hydrothorax. Dropsy in the chest.
Hypertrophy. Enlargement.
Hysteria. Hysterics.
Impetigo. Moist itching eruption.
Incubation. To hatch.
Induration. Hardening.
Inguinal. Of the groin.
Insomnia. Sleeplessness.
Inter. Between.
Intercostal. Between the ribs.
Intra. Inside.
j
Jaundice. Absorption of bile. Icterus.
K
Keloid. Tuburculosis in a scar.
Laryngitis. Inflammation of the larynx.
Laxative. Mild cathartic.
Leucorrhea. The "whites."
Lichen. Itching eruption.
Lochia. Cleansing after confinement.
Locomotor Ataxia. Drunken gait.
Lotion. Liquid application.
Lumbago. Pain in the small of the back.
Lupus. Skin cancer.
GLOSSARY 333
M
Malignant. Like a cancer.
Mania. Madness.
Marasmus. Bowel consumption.
Meningitis. Inflammation of brain covering.
Menorrhagia. Excessive flowing.
Menses. Monthly period.
Metritis. Inflammation of the womb.
Metrorrhagia. Hemorrhage from the womb.
Miscarriage. Loss of the foetus.
N
Naevus. Birthmark.
Nausea. Feeling like vomiting.
Necrosis. Decay of the bone.
Nephritis. Inflammation of the kidney.
Neuralgia. Nerve pain.
Neurosis. Ulceration of the stomach.
Normal. Natural.
O
Obesity.
Fat.
Oedema.
Dropsy.
Onychia.
Felon.
Orchitis.
Inflammation of the testicle.
Os Uteri
Mouth of the womb.
Otalgia.
Pain in the ear.
Ovary.
Egg nest of a woman.
Ozaena.
Chronic catarrh of the nose.
P
ive. Temporary relief.
Palliat
Para. In or between.
Paresis.
Partial paralysis.
334 GLOSSARY
Pericarditis. Inflammation of sack around the heart.
Patulous. Soft.
Peri. Near or around.
Peritoneum. Covering of the bowels.
Peritonitis. Inflammation of covering of the bowels.
Photophobia. Dread of light.
Phthisis. Consumption.
Placenta. Afterbirth.
Pleurisy. Inflammation of the lung covering.
Pneumonia. Lung fever.
Pott's Disease. Decay of the back bone.
Polyuria. Excessive flow of urine.
Proctitis. Inflammation of the rectum.
Prodromal. The first symptoms.
Prolapsus Ani. Falling of the bowel.
Prolapsus Uteri. Falling of the womb.
Prurigo. Itching eruption.
Pruritus. Itching around the anus or vagina.
Ptyalism. Salivation.
Pterygium. Vascular growth from the corner of the eye toward
the center, like a bat's wing.
Puerperal. Belonging to childbed.
Pyaemia. Pus poisoning.
Pyrosis. Heartburn.
Psoriasis. Scaly patch.es on the skin.
Q
Quinsy. Abscess of the tonsils.
R
Ranula. Cyst under the tongue.
Rectum. The lower end of the bowel.
Reflex. Upward.
GLOSSARY 335
Renal. Kidney.
Retro. Backward.
Rickets. Disease of the back bone.
Roseola. Dutch measles.
Rubela. Measles.
Sarcoma. Bone cancer.
Scabies. Itch.
Sciatica. Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve.
Septicaemia. Blood poisoning.
Steril. Unable to bear children.
Strangury. Unable to pass urine.
Suppurate. Forming pus.
Syncope. Fainting.
Syphilis. Genital disease.
Tenesmus. Straining in the bowel or bladder.
Tonsilitis. Inflammation of the tonsil.
Torsion. To twist.
Traumatic. From an injury.
Trichinosis. Disease from eating measly pork.
Tuburculosis. Germ disease.
Tympanitis. Bloating of the belly.
Typhilitis. Inflammation of glands about the appendix.
U
Urticaria. Nettle rash.
Uterus. Womb.
Umbilicus. Navel.
336
GLOSSARY
Vagina. Canal to the womb.
Vaginismus. Spasm of the vagina.
Vaginitis. Inflammation of the vagina.
Varicose. Enlarged veins.
Varicocele. Enlarged veins of the scrotum.
Variola. Small pox.
Vertigo. Dizziness.
Version. To turn.
Diseases and Their Treatment.
INDEX.
Page.
Abortion 21
Abscess IS
Acne 16
After Pain 24
Ague 15
Amenorrhea 20
Anaesthesia 11
Anaemia 22
Antiseptics 25
Aphonia 23
Aphthae 23
Apoplexy 26
Apparent Death 26
Appendicitis 17
Asthma r 13
Asthma Powder 234
Baby 26
Baths 237
Bed-Sores 27
Biliousness 27
Birth-Mark 29
Bladder 28
Bleeding 29, 129
Blisters 30
Blistering 30
Bloating of Belly 215
Blood Test 31
Blood Poisoning 31
Boils 32
Bones 33
Bowels 33
338 INDEX
„ . i^se.
Bram 35
Bread, Digestion of 238
Breathing -^5
Breasts 36
Breath 37
Bronchitis 3g
Bruises gg
Bunions 40
Burns 40
Calculi ! 42, 102
Camphorated Oil and Ice 235
Cancer 41
Carbuncle 32 42
Catalepsy ' 43
Catarrh 43
Catarrh of Nose 158
Caustics 45
Chancres 46
Change of Life 46
Chapped Lips and Hands T 47
Chilblains 47
Childlessness 200
Chill 15, 48, 236
Chlorine Water ^34
Choking 48
Cocain Intoxication 236
Cocaine Test 232
Cholera 48
Cholera Infantum 49, 92
Cholera Morbus 49
Chorea 50
Cicatrix 50
Coccyodynia 50
Colds 50
Colic 53
Collapse 54
Complexion 54
Constipation 55
Consumption 58
Contagion 59
INDEX 339
Page.
Corns 59
Coryza 50
Cramps 60
Coughs 50
Coughs, Indications 53
Croup 61, 237
Cystitis 61
Dandruff 61
Deafness 62
Delirium Tremens 63
Diabetes 64
Diarrhoea 64
Dictionary 329
Differential Diagnosis 183, 195
Diphtheria 66
Discharge of Semen 198, 80
Disinfectants 68
Disturbed Menstruation 108
Diuresis 69
Dosage 245
Dropsy 69, 155
Dropsical Swellings 239
Drowning 70
Drowsiness 70
Drunkenness 71
Dysentery 72
Dysmenorrhea 103
Dyspepsia , 73, 238
Bar 75
Eczema 77, 191
Emetics 80
Emissions 80, 198
Enemas 84
Eneuresis 226
Epilepsy 81
Erysipelas 82
Excessive Urine 69, 171
Eyes 83
Fainting 86
Feet 87
340 INDEX
Page.
Felon 87
Fevers 88, 183, 236
Fistula 91
Food 92
Flexions 107
Freckies 91, 54
Frost Bites 95
Furuncles -32
Gall Stone 95
Glossary 323
Gastralgia 96, 201
Glands 96
Goitre 98
Gonorrhea 100
Gout 101
Gravel 42, 102
Grief 102
Gums 102
Gynaecology 102
Dysmenorrhea 103
Vaginitis 105
Vaginismus 107
Flexions 107
Disturbed Menstruation 108
Menorrhagia 110
Metrorrhagia 110
Vicarious Menstruation Ill
Metritis 112
Leucorrhea 113
Abdominal Tumors 116
Hair 127
Hay Fever 126, 13
Headache 119, 236
Heart 121
Heartburn 123
Heat Rash 124
Hemorrhages 129
Hernia 125
Hiccough 123
Hives 124
INDEX 341
Papce.
Homesickness 126
Hunger Allayed 234
Hydrocele 126
Hydrocephalus 36, 126
Hydrophobia 125
Hypodermic Medication 243
Hysteria 123
Ice Preserved 235
Impotence 132
Infection 59
Inflammation of Rectum 172
Influenza 139
Insanity 133
Insect Bites 134
Irritability 133
Itch 134
Itching Eruptions 134, 237, 164
Ivy Poisoning 237
Jaundice 135
Jerking 135
Joint Affections 136
Kidneys 136
La Grippe 139
Laryngitis 138
Lead Poisoning 139
Lice 143
Lightning Stroke 139
Liver 140
Lock Jaw 141
Locomotor Ataxia 142
Loss of Manhood - 132, 198
Lotions 115
Lumbago •. 142
Lupus 143
Lung Fever 171
Leucorrhea 113
Malaria 146
Measles 144, 183
Medication (Improved method) 235
Melancholy 144
342 INDEX
Pajre.
Menapause 46
Metritis 112
Memorizing of Dosage 246
Menorrhagia 110
Metrorrhagia 110
Milk-leg 144
Miscarriage 146
Moles 145
Mumps 145
Nails 147
Nausea 14S
Nervousness 149
Neuralgia 50, 150
Nitre Paper 233
Nightmare 146
Night Terrors 190
Nose 152
Numbness 153
Nymphomania 154
Obesity 155
Orchitis 156
Oedema 69, 155
Os Uteri Rigid 157
Ossification of Arteries 157
Ovaries 157
Ozaena 158
Ozone 234
Oxygen 234
Pain 159. 236
Painful Monthly 103
Palate 160
Palsy 161
Paracentesis 235. 236
Paralysis 161
Parasites 143. 162
Peevishness 161
Peritonitis 162
Perspiration 163
Photophobia 165
Phosphorous Tincture 235
INDEX 343
Page.
Piles 168
Pleurisy 170
Pneumonia .__ 171
Poisons and Antidotes 165
Polypus 171
Polyuria 69, 171
Pott's Disease 172
Poultices 172
Prickly Heat 124
Proctitis 172
Prostate Gland 173
Prostration 174
Proud Flesh 174
Pruritus 134, 164, 237
Pterygium 174
Ptyalism 174
Pus Poisoning 175
Pustules 174
Pyaemia 175
Quinsy 175
Ranula 175
Rash 124, 179
Rattlesnake Bite 179
Respirations 175
Respiration (Artificial) 239
Restlessness 176
Rheumatism 177
Rickets 172, 176
Ringworm 143, 162, 180
Rupture 125
Salivation 174
Scabies 134
Scalds 40
Scalp 180
Scars 50, 181
Scarlet Fever 181
Sciatica 186
Scrofula 189
Scurvey 92, 189
Seasickness 189
344 INDEX
Page.
Sexual Insanity of Women 154
Sexual Sedatives 188
Sexual Stimulants 187
Shingles '. . . 189
Shrieks . 190
Sick Room (See Introduction) 190
Skin Affections 191, 143
Sleep 193
Sleep Walking 195
Small Pox 194
Sneezing 195
Somnambulism 195
Sore Mouth 23
Sore Nipples 36, 196, 239
Spasms 123, 196
Spermatorrhea 198
Spinal Irritation 200
Sponges 233
Sprain 199
Stammering 196
Sterility 200
Sterilization 238
Stings i 198
Stomach 96, 201
Stomach Salve 238
Stool 202
Stranguary 203
Stricture 204
Stuttering 196
St. Vitus' Dance 50
Sty 204
Sundries ' 232
Sunstroke 205
Sweat 163
Swollen Testicles 156
Suppressed Urine 203
Suppurating Tonsil 175
Syphilis 46, 205
Table of Characters 244
Teeth 206
Teething 207
INDEX 345
Pa-e.
Temperature 127
Testicles 210
Thick Neck 98
Thirst Allayed 234, 235
Throat 210
Tongue 212
Tonsils 175, 213
Toothache 208
Trance 214
Trembling 214
Trichinosis 215
Tumors (Abdominal) 116
Twitching 135
Tympanitis 215
Ulcers 215
Urethra 218
Urine 69, 171, 219
Urinalysis 220
Vaccination 222
Vaginal Lotions 115
Vaginismus 107
Vaginitis 105
Vertigo 239
Vicarious Monthly Ill
Varicose Veins 222
Voice 223
Vomiting 223
Warts 223
Water 224
Waterbrash 123
Water on the Brain 126
Water in the Scrotum 126
Wen 226
Wetting- the Bed 226
"Whites" 113
Whooping Cough 227, 238
Worms 228
Wounds 229
Wrist 231
Writer's Cramp 231
Yawning 231
Drugs and Their Uses,
INDEX.
Page.
Abies Nigra ." 247
Acetanelid 248
Aconite 247
Aesculus Hyppocastanum 248
Aethusa Cynapium 248
Agaricus 249
Agnus Castus v, . . . 249
Ailanthus Glandulosa 249
Alcohol 250
Aletris 250
Aloes 250
Alum 251
Ambrosia 252
Ammonia 251
Ammonol 253
Amyl 253
Anacardium 252
AntimoniumCrudum 253
Antimonium Tart 254
Anthracinum ' 254
Apiol 255
Apis Melifica 254
Apocynum Cannabinum 255
Argentum Metalicum 255
Arnica 256
Arsenicum Alb 256
Arum Triphyllum 257
Asafoetida 257
Aurum Metalicum 257
Baptisia 258
Baryta Carb 258
Belladonna 259
Benzoic Acid 260
348 INDEX
Page.
Berberis Vulgaris 259
Borax 260
Bryonia Alba 260
Cactus Grandiflora 261
Camphor 261
Camphorated Oil 235
Cannabis Indica 262
Cannabis Sativa 262
Cantharis 262
Caulophyllum 263
Causticum 263
Chamomilla 263
Chelidonium 264
China 264
Chlorine Water 234
Cimieifuga 266
Cina 264
Cocaine 232, 236
Cocculus Indicus 265
Colocynth 265
Collinsonia 266
Copper 266
Creasotum 265
Dictionary 329
Digitalis 267
Dioscorea 267
Dose Chart 293
Solubility 325
Dover's Powder 236
Dulcamara 268
Gargling Oil 232
Gelsemium 269
Glonoine 269
Glossary 320
Graphites 269
Hepar Sulphur 270
Hydrastis 270
Hyoscyamus 271
Ignatia 271
Iodine 272
INDEX 349
Page.
Ipecacuanha 272
Iron 268
Iris 273
Kali Bichroinium 273
Kali Carbonicum . . .' 274
Kali Iodatum 274
Kalmia Latif olia 273
Lilium Tig 274
Lime 275
Lycopodium 275
Mercury 276
Natrum Muriaticum 276
Nitric Acid 276
Nitre Paper 233
Nux Vomica 277
Oxygen 234
Ozone 234
Phosphoric Acid 278
Phosphorus 277
Phosphorus Tincture 235
Phytolacca 278
Plantago Major 279
Pulsatilla 279
Rhus Tox 279
Ruta Graveolens 280
Sabina 280
Salix Nigra 281
Sanguinaria 280
Secale Cornutum 281
Sepia 281
Silicea 282
Spongia Tosta 282
Solubility 325
Squibb's Mixture 233
Staphysagria 282
Stramonium 282
Sulphur 283
Sulphuric Acid 283
Terebinth 284
Thuja 284
350 INDEX
Page.
Tissue Salts 291
Tonics 285
Trask's Ointment 232
Trillin 284
Veratrum Viride 285
Zincum 285
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